(verb) : per-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3
* To bind tightly together; to draw together, draw up, contract: vitem,Cato, R. R. 32: stomachus nimio rigore perstrictus,Veg. Vet. 3, 53; Grat. Cyneg. 296.
* To graze, graze against a thing.
* Lit.: femur,Verg. A. 10, 344: solum aratro,to plough slightly,Cic. Agr. 2, 25: portam vomere,to graze against,id. Phil. 2, 40 dub. (al. praestr-).
* Transf., To blunt by grazing against, to make dull, to dull: minaci murmure aures,to stun, deafen,Hor. C. 2, 1, 18: juvenem multo perstringunt lumine,Stat. Th. 5, 666 (but for perstringere oculos, aciem, etc., cf. praestringo).
* Trop.
* To seize: horror ingens spectantes perstringit,Liv. 1, 25; Val. Fl. 7, 81; cf. id. 7, 194.
* In partic.
* To touch or wound slightly with words; to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove (class.): alicujus voluntatem asperioribus facetiis,Cic. Planc. 14, 33: aliquem vocis libertate,id. Sest. 6, 14: aliquem suspicione,id. Sull. 16, 46: aliquem oblique,Tac. A. 5, 11: cultum habitumque alicujus lenibus verbis,id. ib. 2, 59: modice perstricti,id. ib. 4, 17: ad perstringendos mulcendosque militum animos,id. H. 1, 85.
* In speaking, to touch slightly, to glance over, to narrate briefly: leviter transire ac tantummodo perstringere unamquamque rem,Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: quod meis omnibus litteris in Pompeianā laude perstrictus est (Crassus),belittled, slighted,id. Att. 1, 14, 3: perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere,id. de Or. 2, 49, 201: celeriter perstringere reliquum vitae cursum,id. Phil. 2, 19, 47: summatim,Vulg. Dan. 7, 1.

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