adrado

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ad-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [ad, intens.], to scrape, shave, or pare close.

I Lit.: scobina ego illam actutum adraserim, Plaut. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 68 Müll.: adrasum cacumen, lopped off , Plin. 17, 19, 30, § 138: scalpello acuto (sarmentum) in modum cunei adradito, Col. Arb. 8: conspexit Adrasum quendam, newly shaved , Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 50.—

II Fig.: Λειτούργιον illud, nescio an satis, circumcisum tamen et adrasum est, i. e. if it be not yet completed , still it is nearly so (the fig. is prob. derived from sculpture), Plin. Ep. 2, 12 Keil.

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