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..."- L
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..." - L
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..."