Expungo, gis, xi, ctum, gere. To put out a worde or sentence in writing with pricking it about: to pricke: to crosse out: to put away or remoue.Expungere nomen debitoris. Plau. To put a debtours name out of his bookes: to crosse out his debt.Expungere rationes. Hermogenianus. To heare and era-mine an account and trosse it out.Expungere gloriam partam. Plau. To depriue of glory gotiÊ.Supendijs expungi. Paul. To be crost out of wages.Expungam: nam est scabiosus.Plaut.I wil thruste him out of doores for, &c.Munus counere expungitur.One good turne is quitte wyth an other. Expungere, fignificat etiam pungere. Martial. To pricke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-pungo, unxi, unctum, 3, v. a.I.Lit., to prick out: nates jam diu sunt saepe expunctae, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 67.— Hence, II.Transf.A.To strike out, cross out, blot out, erase from a list by points (set above or below). 1.Lit., to expunge a debt, to discharge a soldier (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.): ut expungatur nomen, ne quid debeam, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 41: miles pulchre centuriatus est expuncto in manipulo,
discharged
,
disbanded
, id. Curc. 4, 4, 29: decurias judicum, Suet. Claud. 15: ex causa desertionis notatus temporis, quo in desertione fuit, stipendiis expungitur,
is struck off from the roll
,
deprived of his pay
, Dig. 49, 16, 15. —2. In gen. (a).To get out of the way, remove: pupillum, Pers. 2, 12.—(b). Esp., to blot out a score, remove an obligation (by returning the favor): munus munere, Sen. Ben. 4, 40, 4.—B.To settle or adjust an account, to reckon up any thing: rei publicae rationes subscriptae et expunctae, Dig. 44, 3, 4: ausus est annumerare posteris stellas ac sidera ad nomen expungere,
to reckon up
,
enumerate
, Plin. 2, 26, 24, 95: expungebantur milites laureati, were checked off, sc. as destined to be rewarded, Tert. Cor. Mil. 1.—2.Transf., in gen., to execute, accomplish, perform, fulfil: effectum, Tert. Apol. 35: adventum, id. ib. 21: vota et gaudia Caesarum, id. ib. 35.