destringunt
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...Aprum Plerumque stulti, risum dum captant levem,gravi destringunt alios contumelia,et sibi nocivum concitant periculum.Asellus apro..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...factae, quae nunc quoque gurgite in illo aequora destringunt summis Ismenides alis. Nescit Agenorides natam parvumque nepotem aequoris..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...repentino periculo exterriti sinistras sagis involvunt gladiosque destringunt atque ita se a cetratis equitibusque defendunt castrorum propinquitate confisi..."