CLEAN Copy link • CLEAN 1. v. [vid CLEANSE]. To clean a room, verrere pavimentum (scilicet, cubiculi, Juv.): a house, aedes (Plaut.): the streets, vias (Suet.). To clean anybody out (= take from him all he has), everrere et extergere omnia (Vid: “sweep clean” under CLEAN, adj). 2. free from stains, etc., purus (without any spot or blemish): mundus (only of solid surfaces, which are free from dirt or stains). (The words are found in this connection and order), mundus purusque. Clean vessels, vasa pura: clean linen, *lintea pura: a clean piece of paper, charta pura: to wash clean, pure lavare. “To keep clean” (Vid. CLEAN, v., CLEANSE]. To keep things clean (i. e., habitually), munditiae studere, munditiam adhibere (Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 36, 130). To sweep clean (= plunder anything so as to leave nothing for another), everrere et extergere (e.g., templa. Cic., Verr., 2, 21. 52). FIG., to have clean hands (= not to have stolen anything), manus abstinere alieno; ab alieno abstinere cupiditatem aut manus. OBSERVE: aqua pura is not clean, but unmixed water. Free from moral impurity, purus; integer. (The words are found in this connection and order), purus et integer: castus. (The words are found in this connection and order), purus et castus: castus purusque (chaste, both of body and mind): impollutus: incontam inatus. 3. adv., (quite, altogether), prorsus, plane; funditus (from the foundation): totus (e.g., he is clean altered, totus commutatus est). Numantia was clean destroyed, Numantia funditus deleta est. Sometimes expressed by a compound word, or by some other turn of expression; e.g., to empty the bottle clean, lagenam exsiccare: a jug, potare faece tenus cadum. To leap clean over anything, transilire aliquid or trans aliquid.