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.
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.
