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|lshtext=<b>ab-lŭo</b>: ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[wash]] [[off]] or [[away]], to [[wash]], [[cleanse]], [[purify]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: pulverem lymphis, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 108 Rib.): Ulixi [[pedes]] abluens, Cic. Tusc. 5, 16, 46: [[donec]] me flumine [[vivo]] abluero, Verg. A. 2, 719: abluendo cruori balneas petit, Tac. H. 3, 32.—Poet.: abluere sitim, to [[quench]], Lucr. 4, 876; and: abluere sibi umbras, to [[remove]] [[darkness]] (by [[bringing]] a [[light]]), id. 4, 378.—Of the [[washing]] [[away]] of [[earth]] by a [[shower]], Varr. R. R. 1, 35.—In eccl. Lat., of baptism: munere divinitatis abluti, Cod. Th. 19, 6, 4.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., of calming the passions: [[omnis]] ejusmodi [[perturbatio]] animi placatione abluatur, be removed ([[fig]]. [[derived]] from the [[religious]] [[rite]] of [[washing]] in [[expiation]] of [[sin]]), Cic. Tusc. 4, 28, 60: maculam veteris industriae laudabili otio, to [[wash]] [[out]], Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 3: perjuria, Ov. F. 5, 681 al.
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