(verb) : ē-rādo, si, sum, 3
* To scratch out, scrape off (ante-class. and since the Aug. per.).
* Lit.: eradere atque eruere terram,Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.: muscum,Col. 4, 24, 6: medullam,id. Arb. 9 fin.; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 162: aliquem (albo),to strike out, erase,Plin. Pan. 25, 3; Tac. A. 4, 42 fin.; cf.: inscriptos titulos monumento,Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 8; Amm. 15, 6, 2: corticem,Vulg. Sap. 13, 11.—Poet. transf.: genas, i. e. to shave off the beard (for which, shortly before, vellere), Prop. 4 (5), 8, 26.
* Trop., to abolish, extirpate, eradicate, remove: curam habendi penitus corde, Phacdr. 3, prol. 21; so, elementa cupidinis pravi, * Hor. C. 3, 24, 51: vitia,Sen. Ep. 11: vestigia quoque nobilium civitatum (tempus),i. e. to obliterate, cause to be forgotten,id. 91; cf.: tempora vitae,Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 5: eum de terra,Vulg. Jer. 11, 19; id. 1 Reg. 28, 9.

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