To take away: to diminth. Illi aditum littoris Syracusanis ademerent. Cic. They would not suffer them to atriue. Omnia ista vobis adempta atque erepta sunt. Cicer. Adimere ægritudinem. Terent. To take away sorrow. Animam alicui. Plaut. To kill. Causam rei alicuius faciendæ. Ter. To take away, &c. Ciuitatem alicui. Cic. To bantsh out of the citie. Curam. Ter. To put out of care. Facultatem. Cæs. To make not able to do. Fidem in omne tempus adimere. Ouid. To discredite. Formam alicui. Plaut. To dissignre: to take away. &c. Ius epulandi in publico. Plin. iun. Leges. Cic. Leco aliquem adimere, Id est morti. Hor. To deliuer from. Memoriam. Plin. To cause to be forgotten. Metum. Ter. To put out of feare. Misericordiam. Cic. Meipsum mihi. Cic. Nomen alicui. Plaut. Nomen virgineum, Id est virginitatem. Ouid. To cautsh. Potestatem. Cic. Risum. Plin. Soccos pedibus. Plaut. To pull of. Somnum. Cic. To keepe from sleeping. Spolia. Plaut. Transitum. Plin. Vincula canibus. Ouid. To vnconple houndes. Vires dolor adimit. Ouid. Sorow weakeneth: maketh feeble. Vitam Cic. To kill or slea. Vocem homini adimere creditur lupus. Plinius. To make that he cannot spcake. Adimam cantare seueris. Horat. I will take linging from graue men.

I. Of things: si ego memorem quae me erga fecisti bene, nox diem adimat, would take away, consume, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 57: multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; multa recedentes adimunt, take them away with themselves, as a fine antithesis to secum ferunt, Hor. A. P. 175: ut istas compedes tibi adimam, huic dem, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 31: metum, Ter. And. 2, 2, 2; so id. Heaut. 3, 1, 13; id. Hec. 5, 3, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 9: Juppiter, ingentes qui das adimisque dolores, Hor. S. 2, 3, 288: animam, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 137: postquam adempta spes est, Ter. And. 2, 1, 4: alicui vitam, Cic. Planc. 42: pecuniam, id. Quint. 15, 49: somnum, id. Att. 2, 16: libertatem, id. Dom. 9: exercitum, id. Phil. 11, 8: aditum litoris, id. Verr. 2, 5, 32: omnia sociis, Sall. C. 12, 5: arma militibus, Liv. 22, 44: vires ad vincendum, id. 23, 18: imperium, id. 22, 27: pernicitatem, Tac. H. 1, 79.—And absol.: Qui propter invidiam adimunt diviti, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 46.—Poet. with inf. as object: adimam cantare severis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9 (cf. Gr. a)fairh/somai a)ei/dein, I will prohibit them to sing; so Ov. Pont. 1, 7, 47; Sil. 9, 425).—

II. Poet. of persons, to snatch away, to carry off: hanc, nisi mors, mihi adimet nemo, Ter. And. 4, 2, 14: virgo, quae puellas audis adimisque leto, Hor. C. 3, 22, 3.—(For the distinction between demere, adimere, eximere, v. Lamb. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 31; Bentl. Hor. C. 4, 15, 18; and cf. Doed. Syn. IV. pp. 123-126.)