(verb) : pūrĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, purus-facio
* To make clean, to cleanse, purify (postAug.).
* Lit.: luteos pedes aquā,Plin. 30, 11, 28, § 93: tunicas (oculorum) lacrimationum salivis,id. 11, 37, 54, § 147: favum,id. 21, 14, 49, § 83: agrum,Gell. 19, 12, 11: regnum,Just. 10, 3, 2.
* Trop., to purify with religious rites, to expiate, atone for: se a concubitu mariti,Suet. Aug. 94: se,Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2: quod ille infamavit, te purifica,Lampr. Alex. 7; Paul. Nol. Carm. 6, 72.—Of animals, Plin. 10, 41, 57, § 116.

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