adstrictos
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;
acc. 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);
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples

Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Thraca palus pariterque toris exhorruit omnis mater et adstricto riguerunt ubere nati. accelerat Pavor et Geticis Discordia demens..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...disiunctos nos et quasi dimissos consulatu, sed quasi adstrictos et devinctos putemus; eundemque locum laboris et curae, quem..."
