destrinxit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...quae manibus eruit imis et quae sanguineo lunae destrinxit ab ore 'tune sequeris' ait 'quidquam aut patiere pudendum..."- P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pharetratus dum dat puer oscula matri, inscius exstanti destrinxit harundine pectus; laesa manu natum dea reppulit: altius actum..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sinuatoque expulit arcu: fixa sub aure feri summum destrinxit harundo corpus et exiguo rubefecit sanguine saetas; nec tamen..."