ăd-ĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3, v. a. [emo] (adempsit = ademerit, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 27), to take to one's self from a person or thing, to take away, take any thing from, to deprive of (syn.: demere, eximere, auterre, eripere).
I Of things: si ego memorem quae me erga fecisti bene, nox diem adimat, would take away , consume , Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 57: multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; multa recedentes adimunt, take them away with themselves , as a fine antithesis to secum ferunt , Hor. A. P. 175: ut istas compedes tibi adimam, huic dem, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 31: metum, Ter. And. 339; so id. Heaut. 422; id. Hec. 817; id. Phorm. 161: Juppiter, ingentes qui das adimisque dolores, Hor. S. 2, 3, 288: animam, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 137: postquam adempta spes est, Ter. And. 304: alicui vitam, Cic. Planc. 42: pecuniam, id. Quint. 15, 49: somnum, id. Att. 2, 16: libertatem, id. Dom. 9: exercitum, id. Phil. 11, 8: aditum litoris, id. Verr. 2, 5, 32: omnia sociis, Sall. C. 12, 5: arma militibus, Liv. 22, 44: vires ad vincendum, id. 23, 18: imperium, id. 22, 27: pernicitatem, Tac. H. 1, 79.—And absol. : Qui propter invidiam adimunt diviti, Ter. Phorm. 276.—Poet. with inf. as object: adimam cantare severis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9 (cf. Gr. ἀφαιρήσομαι ἀείδειν, I will prohibit them to sing; so Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 47; Sil. 9, 425).—
II Poet. of persons, to snatch away , to carry off : hanc, nisi mors, mihi adimet nemo, Ter. And. 697: virgo, quae puellas audis adimisque leto, Hor. C. 3, 22, 3.—(For the distinction between demere, adimere, eximere, v. Lamb. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 31; Bentl. Hor. C. 4, 15, 18; and cf. Doed. Syn. IV. pp. 123-126.)