Aboleo, áboles, pen. corr. abolém, & abólui abólitum. penult. cor. abolêre. Cic.To abolish: to vndoe: to put out: to rase: to disanull.Donec odor omnis aboleatur. Plin. Be taken away.Nefandi abolere viri monumenta.Virg.Conscientiam generis humani abolere.Tacit.To make men forget: to put out of the remembrance of men.Corpus igni abolere.Tacit.To burye or consume.Crimen, vel nomina reorum abolere. Marcel. Tran. Paul. Dolorem & iram abolere.Tacit.To abolishe or put away.Imagiues abolere.Tacit.Magistratum abolere alicui, pro Abrogare magistratum.Liu.To put out of office.Sterilitatem fœminarum, & virorum insaniam abolent aquæ Sinuessanæ. Plin. Put away.Vires ahcuius abolere.Tacit.To put away for cuer: cleane to destroy. Aboleo, pro Abluo seu lauo.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăb-ŏlĕo, ēvi (ui), ĭtum, 2, v. a., orig. (in contrast with ad-oleo) to retard or to check the growth of; hence, in a more extended sense, to destroy, efface, abolish; trop., to terminate, and, in the pass., to die, to decay (not before the Aug. period). I.Lit.: cuncta viri monumenta, Verg. A. 4, 497: deum aedes vetustate aut igni abolitae, Tac. A. 2, 49; cf.: corpus alicujus igni, i. e.
to burn
, id. ib. 16, 6; so, libros, Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 6: Homeri carmina, Suet. Calig. 34 al.— In pass.: aboleri, to die (opp. nasci), Plin. 7, prooem. 4.—Poet.: viscera undis,
to remove the poisonous flesh by washing
, Verg. G. 3, 560.—II. Fig.: dedecus armis, Verg. A. 11, 789; cf.: labem prioris ignominiae, Tac. H. 3, 24: memoriam, Suet. Calig. 60; Verg. A. 1, 720: magistratum alicui, Liv. 3, 38, 7: legem (= abrogare), Quint. 1, 5, 29; cf. decretum, Suet. Claud. 6; Galb. 23: crimen, Dig. 48, 6, 2, 10: frumentationes, Suet. Aug. 42: vectigalia, id. Ner. 10: vim moremque asylorum, id. Tib. 37 al.: nonnulla ex antiquis caerimoniis paulatim abolita (= omissa, neglecta), Suet. Aug. 31; cf.: memoria nondum omnino abolita, id. Gram. 24.