constringitur
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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...terrore sed mutuo amore in foedus auxiliumque commune constringitur. VI. 1. 'Quid ergo? non aliquando castigatio necessaria..." - L
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quam frequens uentus incursat; ipsa enim uexatione constringitur et radices certius figit: fragiles sunt quae in aprica ualle..." - G
Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...inscribere 'hendecasyllabi', qui titulus sola metri lege constringitur. Proinde, sive epigrammata sive idyllia sive eclogas sive, ut multi..."