adstringunt
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. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...lenta vincla sunt escaria: quam magis extendas, tanto adstringunt artius. nam ego ad Menaechmum hunc..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...commoneat nos cur id fecerimus. Haec magis adhuc adstringunt qui memoriam ab aliquo simili transferunt ad id quod..."