The corpus record — Latin

elimo

elimo · v. a

to file up

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ē-līmo — Lewis & Short

ē-līmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to file up, viz.,

I Prop.: elimata scobis, filings, Plin. 34, 18, 50, § 170.—

II Transf., to polish.

A Lit., Ov. M. 4, 176; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 12 fin.: dentes, to clean, Tert. Poen. 11.—

B To elaborate, cultivate; to finish, perfect: sxo/lion aliquod, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 16, 7, 3; cf. Quint. 2, 7, 5: animum, Aug. contra Acad. 2, 7: elimati, i. q. eruditi, Gell. praef. § 19: Aeneida, id. 17, 10, 7.—

III To lessen, diminish: vires, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 14, 217.—Hence, ēlī-mātus, a, um, P. a., elaborate; only sup.: disputatio elimatissima, Aug. Cont. Jul. 5, 17.—Adv.; only comp.: ēlīmātĭus, more elaborately, more exactly, Ambros. Hexaëm. 6, 8.

In the wild

elimati Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae pr.1.19
elimatam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.18.p1
elimes Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.7.3
elimat Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.178

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