ăd-ăpĕrĭo, ui, ertum, 4, v. a. [ad, intens.],
I to open fully , to open , throw open (not in Cic.): adorti adapertas fores portae, Liv. 25, 30, 10 Drak. (cf. aperire forīs, Ter. Ad. 167); so Suet. Ner. 12; Curt. 9, 7, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 5, 3; 3, 12, 12.—
II Transf., to uncover , to bare : caput, Sen. Ep. 64; Val. Max. 5, 2, 9: caelum, to make visible , Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 130: adaperta fides, manifest , Stat. Th. 1, 396: aures ad criminationem adapertae, open to , ready to hear , Curt. 9, 7, 24.