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eradere

eradere [CL] 1 to strip off, scrape away (also fig.). b to scrape smooth. c to scrape together (fig.). ~e a lingua mea detrahendi consuetudinem Cerne 146; cum ‥ caro circumquaque ~eretur [altered to †eradicaretur] ‥, tenaciter [spina] inhaerebat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. V 18; 1317 †eradnand’ veteram [sic] coperturam plumbi et ponend’ eandem cum solduram ejusdem super capellam Fabr. Exon. 78.  b Asser Alf. 104 (v. dolabra b).  c H. Hunt. CM 9 (v. dehereditare). 2 to erase, delete. b to wipe out, destroy. erasa, deleta GlH E 354; ut ‥ mendosos libros ‥ erasa scriptorum falsitate corrigeret B. V. Dunst. 37; omnis ‥ pecunie memoria de rotulis ~itur Chr. Battle f. 89.  b totum genus Anglorum Brittaniae finibus erasurum se esse deliberans Bede HE II 20.

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