perstringe

From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈstɹɪn(d)ʒ/

perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)

1. (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:

     I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.

perstringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perstringō