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adrado

adrado · v. a

to scrape

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What it meant

ad-rādo — Lewis & Short

ad-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a.ad, intens.,

I to scrape, shave, or pare close.
I Lit.: scobina ego illam actutum adraserim, Plaut. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 68 Müll.: adrasum cacumen, lopped off, Plin. 17, 19, 30, § 138: scalpello acuto (sarmentum) in modum cunei adradito, Col. de Arb. 8: conspexit Adrasum quendam, newly shaved, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 50.—
II Fig.: *aeitou/rgion illud, nescio an satis, circumcisum tamen et adrasum est, i. e. if it be not yet completed, still it is nearly so (the fig. is prob. derived from sculpture), Plin. Ep. 2, 12 Keil.

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