I.to make clean, to clean, cleanse (post-Aug.; “syn.: purgo, emendo): mundatur nitro,” Plin. 33, 6, 34, § 103: “praesepia mundanda curare,” Col. 12, 3: “perlui et mundari,” Mamert. Grat. Act. 9 fin.—
II. Transf. (eccl. Lat.), to cleanse, make clean.
1. Ceremonially, according to the Levitical law of uncleanness: “et purificabis eos (sc. Levitas),” Vulg. Num. 8, 6.—