constringerent
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. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
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Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pectore tecto 255ira latens; nam quae dubias constringere mentescausa solet, dum quisque pauet, quibus ipse timori est,seque..." Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...erit ipse sibi. LXVI Mamillare. Taurino poteras pectus constringere tergo: Nam pellis mammas non capit ista tuas. LXVII..."- M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...nobis concessa natura: XLIV. nam et lacertos exercitatione constringere et augere vires et colorem trahere naturale est. Ideoque..." 
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...quas vestes, quae non gestamina mitisfestinabat erus? brevibus constringere laenispectora et angusta telas artare lacerna; 130enormes non ille..."