LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

ob-lĭnĭo

ob-lĭnĭo · v. a

to bedaub, besmear

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What it meant

ob-lĭnĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-lĭnĭo, ii, itum, 4, v. a. (post-Aug. collat. form of oblino, q. v.),

I to bedaub, besmear: talearum capita misto fimo cum cinere oblinire, Col. 5, 9, 3; so fin.; id. 12, 2, 42; 12, 15, 2; 12, 44, 6: si quis aliquem caeno, luto oblinierit, Dig. 47, 11, 1, § 1: so, oblinierit, Scrib. Comp. 230: cinis oblinita, id. ib. 245. —
II Transf., to blot out: veritatem, Ambros. Spir. Sanct. 3, 10, 60.

Where it came from

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