I.perf., ātum, 1, v. a., 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.
