adstringent
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;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Congedi uadum mollesque Nympharum lacus, quibus remissum corpus adstringes breui Salone, qui ferrum gelat. Praestabit illic ipsa figendas..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nisi dubitas an vultum nobis mutent, an frontem adstringant, an faciemdiffundant, an ruborem evocent, an fugent sanguinem. Quid..."Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Fides habenda est. Iocasta Redde iam capulo manum, Adstringe galeam, laeua se clypeo ingerat; Dum frater exarmatur, armatus..."