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Webster 1913 Edition
Perstringe
Per-stringe′
,Verb.
T.
[L.
perstringere
; per + stringere
to bind up, to touch upon.] 1.
To touch; to graze; to glance on.
[Obs.]
2.
To criticise; to touch upon.
[R.]
Evelyn.
Webster 1828 Edition
Perstringe
PERSTRINGE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
perstringe
perstringe
English
Verb
perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)
- (now archaic or literary) To censure, criticize.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.iv:
- I speak not of such as generally tax vice […], but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.iv: