adstricti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adstringo, adstringere, adstrinxi, adstrictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tie up/down/back/on/together/tightly; bind, grasp, tighten, fix; form boundary;; oblige, commit; compress, narrow, restrict; knit (brows); freeze, solidify;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →adstrictus, adstricta -um, adstrictior -or -us, adstrictissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bound (by rules), tied; terse, brief, restrained; constricted, dense, compact;; busy/preoccupied (with), intent (on); parsimonious, tight; astringent (taste);
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...sancta; in quibus nihil esse adligati decet nec adstricti: solutis itaque tunicis utuntur; perlucidis autem, quia beneficia conspici..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...Quid ergo interest? quod arte alligati sunt alii, adstricti [alii], districti quoque: hic qui ad superiora progressus..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...suam diuidere uelit, uitam unusquisque quam multis distribuit! Adstricti sunt in continendo patrimonio, simul ad iacturam temporis uentum..."FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...laborant, Verberibus rimantur iter: nec desinit ante, Frigidus, adstrictis qui regnat in ossibus, horror, Quam tepidus laxo manauit..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...aureus ut iuvenem miserantibus intulit undis vector et adstrictis ut sedit cornibus Helle. septem Aurora vias totidemque peregerat..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...decepto didicit custode Corinna liminis adstricti sollicitare fidem, delabique toro tunica velata soluta atque inpercussos nocte movere pedes..."Ars Amatoria III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Huic decet inflatos laxe iacuisse capillos: Illa sit adstrictis impedienda comis; Hanc placet ornari testudine Cyllenea: Sustineat similes..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...decerneretur; et trahebatur damnatus, quantum obducta veste et adstrictis faucibus niti poterat, clamitans sic inchoari annum, has Seiano..."
