Lewis & Short

per-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.

  1. 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.
  2. II. To graze, graze against a thing.
    1. 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-).
      1. 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).
    2. B. Trop.
      1. 1. To seize: horror ingens spectantes perstringit, Liv. 1, 25; Val. Fl. 7, 81; cf. id. 7, 194.
      2. 2. In partic.
        1. 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.
        2. 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.