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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• purify:
      1. 1. purgo, expurgo, repurgo, etc.: v. to purge. Other examples where purify is the strict translation: Luce Palis populos purget ut ille cinis, Ov. F. 4, 640: (the priests) p.ing the walls by solemn sacrifice, festo purgantes moenia lustro, Lucan 1, 593: of language or style: quo magis expurgandus est sermo: Cic. Brut. 74, 258: purum facere is good Latin: mundum facere, good but late.
      2. 2. purĭfĭco, 1, good but late: to p. a honey-comb, p. favum, Plin. 21, 14, 41: land, agrum, Gell. 19, 12, fin.: se purificantes sollemniter aqua circumspergi (of a belief about a religious meaning in the ablutions of the elephant), Plin. 8, 1, 1: nomen Antoninorum tu purifica; quod ille (Elagabalus) infamavit, tu purifica, Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 7.
      3. 3. pūrĕfăcio, 3: late: Non. 114, 19.
      4. 4. pūro, 1: relig. only, very rare: sacra, Fest. s. v. prophetas.
      5. 5. lustro, 1: (to p. by a propitiatory sacrifice): agrum lustrare sic oportet, Cato, R. R. 141: terque senem flamma, ter aqua, ter sulphure lustrat, Ov. M. 7, 261: to p. oneself, lustror: lustramurque Jovi votisque incendimus aras, Virg. Aen. 3, 279. Join: purgare, lustrare: domus purgantur lustranturque, Plin. 25, 9, 59.
      6. 6. febrŭo: 1, Varr. in Non. 114, 22.
      7. 7. ēmendo: 1, esp. of language and style, Cic. Or. 46, 155: Quint. 2, 2, 7. Comp. to clean, cleanse, sweep, wash, wipe, etc. A means of purifying, purgāmen, ĭnis, n.; purgamentum, n., Petr. 134: februamentum, Cens. de Die. Nat. 22. Note--purify as v. n. (Burnet, etc.), purus fieri.