ē-mundo

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, 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.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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