destringi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →destringo, destringere, destrinxi, destrictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strip off, remove by cutting; strip (clothes); scrape/rub down (w/strigil);; scour (bowels); draw (sword); graze; touch lightly; censure/criticize/satirize;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...esse percutienda ; quaedam. frangi debere, quaedam allidi ac destringi, quaedam admoueri. [45,1] Ne hoc quidem crediderunt louem..." - G
Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...praesidio latet. VII. Phaedrus Tu qui nasute scripta destringis mea,et hoc iocurum legere fastidis genus,parua libellum..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...dolore laturi, seu potius non laturi homines essent, destringi aliquid et abradi bonis, quae sanguine, gentilitate, sacrorum denique..."