destringitur
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;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...publica uia errauerit? 4. In singulos seueritas imperatoris destringitur, at necessaria uenia est ubi totus deseruit exercitus. Quid..."Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...dico balinei, de interioribus loquor; nam dum destringitur tergiturque, audiebat aliquid aut dictabat -. In itinere quasi solutus ceteris..."