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..."- G
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..."
