clear (adj.) Copy link Outline I. To the sight1. lĭquĭdus (liquid, transparent2. sĕrēnus (unclouded)3. candĭdus (rare in this sense4. limpĭdus (of fluids)5. pellūcĭdus (transparent)II. To the ear1. lĭquĭdus2. clārus (implying loudness as well as clearness)3. candĭdus4. ăcūtusIII. Of space1. pūrus2. ăpertus, pătensIV. Of language, style1. lūcĭdus2. illustris, e (luminous)3. candĭdus (a critical term, having reference to clearness and brightness of style)4. signĭfĭcans, ntis (telling its tale plainly)V. Intelligible, evident1. clārus2. ăpertus, mănĭfestus, perspĭcuus3. illustris, e4. ēvĭdens, ntis a c. proof, e. demonstratio, Plin. • clear (adj.): I. To the sight: 1. lĭquĭdus (liquid, transparent: q. v.): a c. night, l. nox, Virg.: a c. light, l. lumen, Lucr.: the c. atmosphere, l. aër, Virg. 2. sĕrēnus (unclouded): a c. sky, l. coelum, Cic.: a c. atmosphere, s. aër, Plin.: also used in neut. as subs. = clear weather: as, a storm was known to have arisen with a c. sky, sereno constabat nimbum ortum, Liv.: Suet.: cf. to clear up. 3. candĭdus (rare in this sense: v. bright): a bright and c. light, lux clara et c., Pl. (N.B. Clarus, illustris, lucidus are all too strong; signifying rather bright, luminous: q. v.) 4. limpĭdus (of fluids): a c. lake, l. lacus, Cat.: perfectly c. wine, vinum defecatum quam limpidissimum, Col. 5. pellūcĭdus (transparent): Cic. Phr.: to become c. (of fluids), lĭquesco, lĭcui, 3: to become c. gradually, paullatim l., Auct. B. Alex.: to make c. (of fluids), dēfaeco, dēlĭquo (lĭquo): v. to filter. II. To the ear: 1. lĭquĭdus: a c. voice, l. vox, Hor.: Lucr.: to sing a c. note, liquidum cantare, Ov.: v. liquid. 2. clārus (implying loudness as well as clearness): a c. (distinctly audible) voice, c. VOX, Cic.: v. audible, loud. 3. candĭdus: applied by Quint. (11, 3, 15), and Plin. (28, 6, 16), to a kind of voice at once clear and musical; and opposed to a thick, husky one (fusca vox): Cic. applies to the same kind of voice the epithet canorus: v. melodious. 4. ăcūtus: i. e. clear and shrill: q. v. Phr.: the sounds become clearer (or louder) and clearer, magis atque magis clarescunt sonitus, Virg. A. 2, 301. III. Of space: free, open: 1. pūrus: a c. open plain, p. ac patens campus, Liv.: the streets are c., so that nothing interferes with the quiet muser, p. sunt plateae, nihil ut meditantibus obstet, Hor.: Varr. 2. ăpertus, pătens: v. open. Phr.: a c., open space (without buildings on it), ārea, Varr.: v. area. IV. Of language, style: lucid: 1. lūcĭdus: Philistus, an imitator of Thucydides; and, whilst much feebler, considerably clearer, Philistus imitator Thucydidis; et, ut multo infirmior, ita aliquatenus lucidior, Quint.: a c. arrangement, l. ordo, Hor. 2. illustris, e (luminous): a c. speech, which puts the matter almost before one's eyes, il. oratio quae rem constituat paene ante oculos, Cic.: a c. explanation, il. explanatio, Quint. 3. candĭdus (a critical term, having reference to clearness and brightness of style): Herodotus is interesting, c., and diffuse, dulcis et c. et fusus H., Cic.: a c. kind of speaking, c. dicendi genus, Cic. 4. signĭfĭcans, ntis (telling its tale plainly): used in conjunction with lucidus (or dilucidus) by Quint. 12, 10, 21, et al. V. Intelligible, evident: 1. clārus: your plans are clearer to us than the light of day, luce sunt clariora nobis tua consilia, Cic.: very c. handwriting, clarissimae literae, Cic. 2. ăpertus, mănĭfestus, perspĭcuus: v. evident. 3. illustris, e: a fact c. and known to all, factum il. notumque omnibus, Cic. 4. ēvĭdens, ntis a c. proof, e. demonstratio, Plin.: v. evident. Phr.: to be c., appāreo, constat, lĭquet (impers.): the last esp. used with a negative as legal term, implying that a case has not been made out (cf. our "not proven"): they brought in the verdict that the case was not c., non liquere (N. L.) dixerunt, Cic.: Gell.: to make a thing quite c., rem ad liquidum perducere, Vell.; also, rem (veritatem) ad liquidum explorare, Liv.; ad liquidum redigere, Sen.: also, rem claram, manifestam, apertam facere or reddere v. to prove, explain: to become c. (of things explained), clāresco, Lucr. N. B. Clear is also used in the sense of free from: as, c. of blame, expers culpae or liber culpa, etc.: v. FREE FROM: also for mere, entire, as, so much c. loss: v. mere: with a c. conscience, rectâ conscientiâ, optimâ conscientiâ: v. conscience.
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.
CLEAR Copy link • CLEAR 1. To the sight; bright; light; etc., clarus (dear-shining; naturally clear and bright): lucidus (full of light, and shedding light): pellucidua (transparent in itself): perspicuus (transparent, that may be seen through): limpidus (only of water, naturally light and clear): illustris (in the light, bright): nitidus, nitens (of a pure brightness): serenus (clear, unclouded; of the sky, day, etc.; figuratively, of the brow): laetus, hilaris or hilarus (cheerful; of the countenance): purus (pure, clean, unspotted; also, unmixed, as water, air, also sky, gems, ets): mundus (clean). Not to be clear about anything, non habere, quod liqueat. A dear sky, clear weather, serenum, serenitas, sudum. Still and clear weather, tranquilla serenitas. It becomes clear, disserenascit; ’tis so, disserenat. Clear water (not mixed), aqus pura. Also, clear, i. e., plain, evident, manifest, either to the eye or the mind, perspicuus, apertus, minifestus. evidens; testatus (shown, as it were, by witnesses): notus, cognitus (known): certus (certain): planus (intelligible, plain): elarus, lucidus. dilucidus, illustris (bright, lucid): expressus (exactly expressed): distinctus (well-ordered; also of the speaker). It is clear, est perspicuum, planum, evidens, manifestum: apparet, in aperto est; lucet; liquet. It is clearer than the light, luce, or omni luce, or solis luce clarius est; perspicuum est omnibus. Clear marks of crime, expressa sceleris vestigia. A clear description, dilucida et signiticans descriptio. Clear, to the hearing, canorus, (clear sounding; opposed to fuscus, thick, hallow: clarisonus is poetical): acutus (sharp, high; opposed to gravis, deep): clarus (clear, audible, loud; opposed to obtusus): candidus (clear, not thick), A clear voice, vox clara or splendida (this last implies sweetness also): vox explanabilis (articulate): vox levis. To make the voice clear, splendorem vocis afferre (Plin.) Clear utterance, os planum or explanatum. Clear, as a quality of the sight, of the hearing, and also of the mind, acutus (sharp, keen. acute: PROP. and figuratively): acer (sharp, piercing; of the sight and the mind): perspicax (sharp-sighted, piercing: of a person as to his mind): sollers (intelligent, discerning, judicious): ingeniosus (inventive, talented): sagax (sagacious, as to scent or hearing, or as to mind). A clear head, ingenium acutum, acre; aciea mentis, acumen ingenii. Clear, i. e., free, unencumbered, liber, solutus; liber et solutus: unimpaired, unhurt, integer (whole). intactus (untouched, unimpaired), inviolatus (unviolated), invulneratus (unwounded), incorruptus (untainted, spoiled in no part), incolumis (unhurt), salvus (with life), sospes (saved by the mercy of Heaven). Clear of a thing, liber, or liberatus re, or a re; vacuus re or a re; expers alicujus rei; intactus aliqua re. Clear of debt, aere alieno vacuus (having no debts) :aere alieno solutus (freed from them): to get clear of debt, exire aere alieno, aes alienum dissolvere. To get clear of a thing, se aliqua re exuere, se ex aliqua re explicare, expedire; fugere, effugere aliquid, subterfugere aliquid; evadere ex, etc.; elabi alicui rei or ex re (e.g., custodiae vinculis). To keep (one’s self) clear of, fugere, defugere, cavere: keep anothtr, prohibere or defendere aliquid ab aliquo or aliquem ab aliqua re. To come off clear, vivum, salvum, integrum evadere (come off safe): absolvi (be acquitted): poenas non dare (escape punishment): aliquid impune facere, fecisse. You shall not get off clear, as you suppose, hoc tibi non sic abibit; hoc non impune feceris; hoc non impunitum omittam. Innocent, pure, innocens, insons, culpa vacuus or carens; purus, cactus, integer, sanctus. A clear conscience, coniscientia optimae mentis; conscientia recte facti or recte factorum; mens bene sibi conscia: to hare a clear conscience, nullius culpae sibi conscium esse, sustentari praeclara conscientia sua. With a clear conscience, sine sollicitudine religiouis; salva fide; salvo officio; salvis legibus; boua mente or bono animo. To be clear of a thing, insontem esse alicujus rei. Fair, impartial, integer (unbiased), incorruptus (unbribed), aequus (equal, even, just), studio et ira vacuus (dispassionate). Free, open, patens, apertus; purus (not covered with trees or other things): expeditus (unobstructed): facilis (easy): a clear sea (i. e., without ice), *mare glacie solutum. To give a thing clear course, rem non impedire. To make a clear way, viam sibi aperire: (of those who give way) loco cedere. Full, entire, solidus, sine ulla deductione; integer, plenus; totus. I set that down as clear gain, id lucro appono, in lucro pono, puto esse de lucro. 2. to make clear, pure, bright. etc., purgare: repurgare: expurgare: purum facere (general term, purificare, not to be recommended): mundum facere: mundare: emundare (both post-Augustan): abluere (to wash off): tergere: detergere (wipe off): extergere (to wipe out): verrere: everrere (by sweeping): to clear a language from incorrect expressions, expurgare sermonem; sermonem usitatum emendare (after Cic., Brut. 74, 259); consuetudinem vitiosam et corruptam pura et incorrupta consuetudine emendare: to clear one’s conscience. (by the confession of anything), conscientiam exonerare: se exonerare (Curt.., 6, 8, 12, and 9, 9). Excuse one’s self fully: to clear one’s self from a charge by an oath, *jurare se sceleri non affinem esse: *jurejurando se purgare. to clear one’s self from a charge, crimen amoliri; culpam diluere: to clear one’s self from vices, vitia ponere. To clarify, Vid: TO CLEAR UP: (a) INTR., the weather clears up, disserenascit (*Liv., 39, 46): has cleared up, disserenat (*Plin., 18, 35, 82): (b) TR., to clear up a doubt, difficulty. etc, illustrare aliquid: lurem or lumen alicui rei afferre (affundere, erroneous) dare alicui rei lumen: explanare aliquid (to make intelligibe): aperire (develop, all of them with accessary notion of the thing’s being dark or intricate): explicare (unfold; of difficulties): interpretari (interpret; words and things which seem to be without sense to a person not initiated in them): occulta et quasi involuta aperire: doubts, dubia aperire: an error, errorem aperire; lucis aliquid afferre rebus: solvere: dissolvere: resolvere: expedire (to unravel; to untie, as it were; e.g. a knot): enodare (intricate or insidious matters; e.g., the snares of the law, laqueos juris): an ambiguity, ambiguitatem solvere, resolvere: captious questions, captiosa solvere; captiones explicare. discutere. CLEAR OFF (= pay off), e.g., tribus pensionibus solvere pecuniam, to clear off a debt in three instalments: to clear off a debt, aes alienum solvere, dissolvere; se liberare aere alieno; nomen solvere, dissolvere, expedire (all of debts), also solvere, reddere debitum; solidum solvere (the whole debt): ad assem solvere: (to clear off every sixpence, not ad denarium, Vid: Cic., Quint., 4, extr., and ad Att., 2, 6, extr). To disencumber, tutum reddere or praestare (e.g., a place, the sea, etc., of enemies, ab hostibus, or of robbers, a latronibus, or praedonibus, i. e., to overcome them): to clear trees from moss, arbores emuscare (general term): arboribus muscum abradere: arbores interradere (by scraping it off): to clear out the sewers, cloacas purgare or detergere. To clear away, tollere (e.g., tollere mensam; tollere patinam. to clear the table): tollere de loco; ex loco (from a place): amoliri (of obstacles; also with addition of e medio, with labor and difficulty): to clear away obstacles, impedimenta superare; ea quae obstant transcendere (to overcome them): amoliri quae impedimento sunt (remove them by great exertions, after Ter., Andria, 4, 2, 24). CLEAR OUT (= empty): to clear a roum, a house, etc., vacuum facere: vacuefacere: purgare (to clear of anything unnecessary, e.g., fossas): detergere (of sewers, trenches. etc., cloacas, fossas). To pay the custom-house duty, portorium dare. To gain, e.g., a good deal of money is cleared by anything, permagna pecunia ex re conficitur. I clear some money by anything, pecunias facio or capio ex re: what is cleared by the mines, pecunia, quae redit ex metallis; pecunias, quas facio ex metallis. I clear nothing. except by anything, est solum mini aliquid (e.g., praedium) in reditu (Plin., Ep., 4, 6, 1): that by which anything is cleared, fructuosum; quaestuosum: a great deal is cleared by the vineyards, uberrimus est reditus vinearum: a certain amount is cleared by anything, aliquid statum reditum. praestat (Plin., Ep., 3, 19, 5): fifty talents are cleared every year from that district, ex ea regione redeunt quotannis quinquaginta talenta. To sell off or clear a shop, divendere: distrahere: foras, quidquid habeo, vendo (Plaut., Stich, 1, 3. 67). To acquit, absolvere, of anything, alicujus rei (of a crime, injuriarum), or with regard to a thing, aliqua re or de aliqua re (e.g., regni suspicione, de praevaricatione): exsolvere (of anything, aliqua re): liberare (of anything, aliqua re). 3. adv. Vid. CLEAN, adv.