clear (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. expĕdio, 42. purgo, 13. exstirpo, 1 (of lands)4. extrīco, 15. sĕrēno, 1 (of the weather)II. To exculpate (q. v.)III. To make a profit • clear (v.): I. Lit.: to make open or clear: 1. expĕdio, 4: to c. the approaches, aditus ex., Caes.: to c. a stony field by gathering the stones, agrum saxosum lectione lapidum ex., Col. 2. purgo, 1: to c. ground with hoes, arva ligonibus p., Ov.: to c. a place with sickles, falcibus p. locum, Cic.: v. to cleanse, rid of. 3. exstirpo, 1 (of lands): to c. lands of trees and brushwood, agros arboribus atque virgultis ex., Pall. 4. extrīco, 1: to c. forest land, agrum silvestrem ex., Col. (the same notion may be expressed by agrum purum facere: v. clean, 2). 5. sĕrēno, 1 (of the weather): Jupiter c.s the sky and the weather, Jupiter coelum tempestatesque s., Virg. Phr.: he (Themistocles) c.'d the sea of pirates, maritimos praedones consectando mare tutum reddidit, Nep.: to c. trees of moss, arbores emuscare, Col. (= musco purgare). Fig.: to c. (disburden) one's conscience (by confession), conscientiam exonerare or se exonerare, Curt. (in diff. sense, conscientiam purgare, v. inf.). II. To exculpate (q. v.): Phr.: to c. oneself relatively to any matter, purgare se de aliqua re, Cic.: to c. the public conscience (free the state of all complicity), publicam conscientiam purgare, Just.: to c. any one of the odium and guilt, invidiam crimenque ab aliquo amoliri, Tac. H. 3, 75, fin.: to c. (any one from) a charge, crimen diluere, Cic. III. To make a profit: lucror, lucrĭfăcio: v. to gain.