clean (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. mundus2. pūrus • clean (adj.): 1. mundus: perfectly c. baskets: quala mundissima, Col.: c. (or neat) furniture, m. supellex, Hor.: blessed are the p. in heart, beati mundo corde, Vulg. 2. pūrus: to make a field neat and c., agrum mundum p.que facere, Gell.: a c. dress, vestis p.. Virg.: a c. house, p. aedes, Pl. N.B. Mundus usu. conveys the additional sense of neat, elegant (q. v.); purus that of pure, unmixed. Phr.: to make c., purgo: v. to clean, cleanse: to have c. hands (fig.), alieni abstinentem, abstinentissimum esse, Plin. Ep.: v. integrity.