perstringe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈstɹɪn(d)ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)

1. (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James 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

perstringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perstringō