per-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.
I To bind tightly together; to draw together , draw up , contract : vitem, Cato R. R. 32: stomachus nimio rigore perstrictus, Veg. Vet. 3, 53; Grat. Cyneg. 296.—
II To graze , graze against a thing.
A Lit.: femur, Verg. A. 10, 344: solum aratro, to plough slightly , Cic. Agr. 2, 25: portam vomere, to graze against , id. Phil. 2, 40 dub. (al. praestr-).—
2 Transf., To blunt by grazing against, to make dull , to dull : minaci murmure aures, to stun , deafen , Hor. C. 2, 1, 18: juvenem multo perstringunt lumine, Stat. Th. 5, 666 (but for perstringere oculos, aciem, etc., cf. praestringo).—
B Trop.
1 To seize : horror ingens spectantes perstringit, Liv. 1, 25; Val. Fl. 7, 81; cf. id. 7, 194.—
2 In partic.
a To touch or wound slightly with words; to blame , censure , reprimand , reprove (class.): alicujus voluntatem asperioribus facetiis, Cic. Planc. 14, 33: aliquem vocis libertate, id. Sest. 6, 14: aliquem suspicione, id. Sull. 16, 46: aliquem oblique, Tac. A. 5, 11: cultum habitumque alicujus lenibus verbis, id. ib. 2, 59: modice perstricti, id. ib. 4, 17: ad perstringendos mulcendosque militum animos, id. H. 1, 85.—
b In speaking, to touch slightly , to glance over , to narrate briefly : leviter transire ac tantummodo perstringere unamquamque rem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: quod meis omnibus litteris in Pompeianā laude perstrictus est (Crassus), belittled , slighted , id. Att. 1, 14, 3: perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere, id. de Or. 2, 49, 201: celeriter perstringere reliquum vitae cursum, id. Phil. 2, 19, 47: summatim, Vulg. Dan. 7, 1.