perstringe
To censure; criticize.
Verb
- To censure; criticize.
- I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend. - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy:...
Origin
From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).