Erado, erádis, pen. prod. erási, erâsum, erâdere Colu. To scrape off or out.Albo Senatorio aliquem eradere.Tacit.To put one oute of the number of Senatours.Eradenda elementa praui cupidinis. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to scratch out, scrape off (ante-class. and since the Aug. per.). I.Lit.: eradere atque eruere terram, Varr. L. L. 5, 136 Müll.: muscum, Col. 4, 24, 6: medullam, id. Arb. 9 fin.; Plin. 17, 21, 35, 162: aliquem (albo),
to strike out
,
erase
, Plin. Pan. 25, 3; Tac. A. 4, 42 fin.; cf.: inscriptos titulos monumento, Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 8; Amm. 15, 6, 2: corticem, Vulg. Sap. 13, 11.—Poet. transf.: genas, i. e. to shave off the beard (for which, shortly before, vellere), Prop. 4 (5), 8, 26.— II.Trop., to abolish, extirpate, eradicate, remove: curam habendi penitus corde, Phacdr. 3, prol. 21; so, elementa cupidinis pravi, Hor. C. 3, 24, 51: vitia, Sen. Ep. 11: vestigia quoque nobilium civitatum (tempus), i. e.
to obliterate
,
cause to be forgotten
, id. 91; cf.: tempora vitae, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 5: eum de terra, Vulg. Jer. 11, 19; id. 1 Reg. 28, 9.