perstringe

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English

Etymology

From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
      I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) perstringe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of perstringō
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