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* ab-lūdo, si, sum, 3, v. n.; meton. (like the Greek ἀπᾴδειν), not to agree with or resemble, to differ from, be unlike: haec a te non multum abludit imago, is not much unlike thee, Hor. S. 2, 3, 320 (= abhorret, discrepat).

ab-lŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to wash off or away, to wash, cleanse, purify.

  1. I. Lit.: pulverem lymphis, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 108 Rib.): Ulixi pedes abluens, Cic. Tusc. 5, 16, 46: donec me flumine vivo abluero, Verg. A. 2, 719: abluendo cruori balneas petit, Tac. H. 3, 32.
    Poet.: abluere sitim, to quench, Lucr. 4, 876; and: abluere sibi umbras, to remove darkness (by bringing a light), id. 4, 378.
    Of the washing away of earth by a shower, Varr. R. R. 1, 35.
    In eccl. Lat., of baptism: munere divinitatis abluti, Cod. Th. 19, 6, 4.
  2. II. Trop., of calming the passions: omnis ejusmodi perturbatio animi placatione abluatur, be removed (fig. derived from the religious rite of washing in expiation of sin), Cic. Tusc. 4, 28, 60: maculam veteris industriae laudabili otio, to wash out, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 3: perjuria, Ov. F. 5, 681 al.

ablūtĭo, ōnis, f. [abluo], a washing, cleansing, Macr. S. 3, 7.
Of baptism, cf. abluo, I. fin. (eccl. Lat.; in Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 74, the correct reading is adulatione; v. Sillig ad h. l.).

* ablūtor, ōris, m. [abluo], one that washes off or purifies (eccl. Lat.).

ablūtus, a, um, Part. of abluo.

ablŭvĭum, i, n. [abluo], = diluvium, a flood or deluge, Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 1 (Com. Rel. p. 300, n. 17 Rib.), Front. p. 69 Goes.; cf. Isid. in Magi Auct. vi. p. 503.