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perstringe, v.|pəˈstrɪndʒ|
[ad. L. perstring-ĕre to bind tightly, draw together, graze, rub, blunt, make dull, touch slightly, glance at, touch or wound slightly with words, censure, reprimand; f. per- 2 + stringĕre to tie, bind.]
†1. trans. To bind tightly; to constrain. rare.
1684T. Goddard Plato's Demon 343 These proportionate arguments..whilst they perstringe the mind, do not constrain the body.
2. To censure; to take to task; to pass strictures upon; to criticize adversely, find fault with.
1549in Latimer's Serm. bef. Edw. VI, ii. Pref. (Arb.) 54 He [Latimer] so frankely and liberallye taxed perstringed and openly rebuked..y⊇ peculiar fauts of certayne of his auditours. 1699Evelyn Acetaria 168 So was I glad to find it [the lazy life of friars] justly perstring'd and taken notice of by a learned Person. 1831De Quincey Parr Wks. 1857 VI. 113, I am endeavouring with the gentlest of knoutings quietly to ‘perstringe’ your errors. Sam Parr!.. Perstringing, which was a favoured word of your own, was a no less favoured act. 1880Edin. Rev. Apr. 382 One of them, by name Marcellus, is lightly perstringed as ‘praetenuis meriti’.
†3. To touch on; to glance at; to hint at. Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. (1622) Pref. 8 They passe ouer them so sleightly, and perstringe them so briefely, that all of them may be truly affirmed to haue beene..rather touched then handled. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. iii. iii. (1713) 228 But that..these parts of Knowledge should be perstringed by Moses in this History, it seems to me not to have the least probability in it. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 114 To observe when our neighbour is perstring'd by such a doctrine. 1706Phillips, To Perstringe, to touch lightly, or to glance at a thing in discourse. 1797T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 43 The prefaces and notes perstringe..whatever has, of late years, obtained celebrity in politics or literature.
†4. To blunt or dull (the eyes, or light); to dazzle; to dim. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 644 The interrogations also and demaunds [ought to be] nothing darke or intricate: lest they doe perstringe and dazzle their eies, who are not quicke sighted. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινη xxii. 216 The Sun..by his matchless light perstringeth and eclipseth all other starrs. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. i. vii. 21 The Golden splendour and magnificency of them did, it seems, so perstringe the eyes of the simple sort.
Hence perˈstringing vbl. n.; also perˈstringement, censure, stricture, criticism.
1676Doctrine of Devils 88 A perstringing of the eyes might delude them. 1891Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 669/2 One more perstringement and we have done. |