to bind closely, press hard, touch closely, graze:
femur, V.: solum aratro,
plough slightly: vomere portam, graze against: uterum perstrinxerat arbor, had overgrown, O.: murmure aures, deafen, H.—Fig., to touch closely,
affect deeply, wound, move, touch: horror spectantes
perstringit, L.: eos vocis
libertate.—Of a speaker, to touch slightly, glance over: unam quamque rem: quod meis litteris perstrictus est (Crassus),
slighted: cultum alcuius levibus verbis, slightly censure,
Ta.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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