emundo

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

ē-mundo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to clean out , make quite clean (a favorite word of Columella; not in Juv. 14, 67, where the right reading is emendat): bubilia, Col. 2, 15, 7; cf. id. 9, 14, 7; 11, 2, 71: humum, id. 6, 30, 2: pennas gallinae, id. 8, 4, 4: vinum, to purify , id. 12, 23, 2; cf. segetes, id. 11, 2, 7 al.—

II Trop., to cleanse , purify from sin (eccl. Lat.): conscientiam nostram, Vulg. Hebr. 9, 14 et saep.