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(verb) : abs-tergĕo, rsi, rsum, 2, (the form
* Abstergo, gĕre rests upon spurious readings, except in eccl. Lat., as Vulg. Apoc. 21, 4), to wipe off or away, to dry by wiping.
* Lit.: labellum,Plaut. As. 4, 1, 52: sudorem,id. Men. 1, 2, 16: vulnera,Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9: lacrimas, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 68: fletum,Cic. Phil. 14, 34: everrite aedīs, abstergete araneas, brush away, Titin. ap. Non. 192, 10.— *
* Transf.: remos (qs. to wipe away, i. e.),to break, to dash to pieces,Curt. 9, 9, 16.
* Trop., to wipe away (any thing disagreeable, a passion, etc.), i. e. to drive away, expel, remove, banish: ut mihi absterserunt omnem sorditudinem,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 10; esp. freq. in Cic.: dolorem, Q. Fr. 2, 9: senectutis molestias,Sen. 1: metum, Fam. 9, 16; luctum, Tusc. 3, 18: suspicionem,Amm. 14, 11.
* Abstergo, gĕre rests upon spurious readings, except in eccl. Lat., as Vulg. Apoc. 21, 4), to wipe off or away, to dry by wiping.
* Lit.: labellum,Plaut. As. 4, 1, 52: sudorem,id. Men. 1, 2, 16: vulnera,Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9: lacrimas, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 68: fletum,Cic. Phil. 14, 34: everrite aedīs, abstergete araneas, brush away, Titin. ap. Non. 192, 10.— *
* Transf.: remos (qs. to wipe away, i. e.),to break, to dash to pieces,Curt. 9, 9, 16.
* Trop., to wipe away (any thing disagreeable, a passion, etc.), i. e. to drive away, expel, remove, banish: ut mihi absterserunt omnem sorditudinem,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 10; esp. freq. in Cic.: dolorem, Q. Fr. 2, 9: senectutis molestias,Sen. 1: metum, Fam. 9, 16; luctum, Tusc. 3, 18: suspicionem,Amm. 14, 11.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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