Meanings
verbperstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)
present singular third person perstringes · participle present perstringing · participle past perstringed · past perstringed
- archaicliteraryTo censure; criticize.
I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv
Origin
- Latinperstringere
- Englishperstringe
From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).
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Rhymes with perstringe
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APA
perstringe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perstringe
MLA
“perstringe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perstringe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perstringe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perstringe.
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