constrinxit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...orbem torquente Noto Romana iuuentus procubuit timuitque rapi; constrinxit amictus inseruitque manus terrae nec pondere solo sed nisu..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...arma,nec libuit mutare locum. tamen omnia torporpectora constrinxit, gelidusque in uiscera sanguispercussa pietate coit, totaeque cohortespila parata..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...bruma decussit decus nemorum et niuali cuncta constrinxit gelu, quodcumque gramen flore mortifero uiret, dirusue tortis sucus..."