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Thesaurus: perstringe

To touch; to graze; to glance on.

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Definitions

  1. v. t. To touch; to graze; to glance on.
  2. v. t. To criticise; to touch upon.
  3. perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed) (now archaic or literary) To censure, criticize.