perstringe

verb /pəˈstɹɪn(d)ʒ/

1. To censure; criticize.

   archaic, literary

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

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry perstringe (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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