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
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..."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..."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..."