constringent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →constringo, constringere, constrinxi, constrictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bind fast/tight, tie up/together; confine, restrain; hinder, inhibit, control;; compress/squeeze; make smaller/lessen/contract; hold together; congeal/freeze;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...conticiscam, nam audio aperiri fores. IV.vii NIC. Constringe tu illi, Artamo, actutum manus. CHRYS. Quid feci? NIC. Impinge..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...referas. Illos conpesce, marcentia in te excita, soluta constringe, contumacia doma, cupiditates tuas publicasque quantum potes vexa..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...studia mores fama, suprema denique hominum iudicia constringant. Vale. C. PLINIUS CORNUTO SUO S. Pareo, collega carissime..."