To take away or abate. Addere & Demere, contraria. Varro. Demere de re aliqua. Plaut. To take from: to diminish. De capite. Ci. To take from, or abate from the principal, &c. Ex osse. Cesl. To take somewhat of the bone away. Minutatim & gradatim aliquid demere. Cic. To diminishe & take away by little and little, one portion after another. Soleas. Plaut. Pul or take off my shooes. Vngues. Plaut. To pare off ones nailes. Demere & Tribuere, contraria. Lucre. To take away and to giue. Amores. Ouid. To take away wanton loue. Authoritatem pecuniæ. Salu. To cause riches to be no more esteemed, or in no more auth oritie. Cibo aliquid. Cels. To diminish ones meate: to giue lesse meate. Aliquid ex cibo. Cels. Idem. Commoda. Ouid. To take away ones commodities. Curam & solicitudinem. Liui. To put awaye care and pensiuenesse. Dolorem. Lucr. Fidem alicui rei. Ouid. To make it not to be credited. Fidem fabulis. Suet. To make men not to beleeue tales. Honorem alicui. Ouid. To take honour from one. Ignominiam. Liu. To put away or reuenge a reproche or rebuke. Iuga equis. Ouid. To vnyoke. Aliquid laudi. Ouid. To diminish ones praise. Metum. Tac. To put away feare. Mœrorem è pectore. Lucr. To put sorrow out of ones heart. Molestias alteri. Ter. Lachrymis demenda mora est. Ouid. He must weepe incontinent, or by and by. Odorem deteriorem vini demere. Cato. To take away the ill taste of wine. Otia demere. Stat. Solicitudinem. Tac. Nubem supercilio. Hor. To put cloudes from his forehead: to looke merily and cherefuly. Vitio aliquid demere. Cels. Somewhat to diminishe a faulte or blemish.

I. Lit.: addita demptaque quaedam, Lucr. 2, 770; cf.: cum aliquid additur aut demitur, Cic. Ac. 2, 16: si quid ad eas (leges) addi demi mutarive vellet, Liv. 31, 11 fin.: lubet scire quantum auri erus sibi dempsit, Plaut. Bac. 4, 4, 14 (for which, shortly after, sibi novem abstulit): aurum sibi, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 13: secures de fascibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 31; so, clipea de columnis, Liv. 40, 51: de capite (from the sum total) medimna DC, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33; cf. ib. 35 (twice): una dempta uncia deunx, dextans dempto sextante, dodrans dempto quadrante, bes dempto triente, Varr. L. L. 5, 172 Müll.: de stipendio equitum aera, Liv. 7, 41: non hilum de tempore mortis, Lucr. 3, 1100; cf.: partem de die, Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20; Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 20 et saep.: quam minimum ex osse, Cels. 8, 4; cf.: aliquid ex cibo, id. 6, 6, 16: fetus ab arbore, Ov. H. 20, 9; cf.: sucum a vellere, id. A. A. 3, 214.—With simple abl.: fetus arbore, id. M. 14, 689: juga equis, id. ib. 7, 324; id. F. 2, 74; cf.: juga bobus, Hor. Od. 3, 6, 42: vincla pedibus, Ov. M. 3, 168; cf.: vincula nobis, id. F. 3, 320: nubem supercilio, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94 et saep.: soleas (when about to recline at table), Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 16; cf.: Ov. A. A. 2, 212: haec (epistola) casu ad turrim adhaesit ... dempta ad Ciceronem defertur, Caes. B. C. 5, 48, 8: odorem vino, Cato R. R. 110: barbam, to shave, Suet. Caes. 67.—

II. Trop.: nulla dies nobis maerorem e pectore demet, Lucr. 3, 921; so, mihi et tibi et illis molestiam, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 33: nobis acerbam necessitudinem, Sall. J. 102, 5: plus dignitatis patribus (with detrahere, and opp. addere), Liv. 2, 60: silentia furto, i. e. to disclose the theft, Ov. M. 2, 700 et saep.—Without a dat.: metum omnem, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 18: dolorem, Lucr. 2, 21: sollicitudinem, Cic. Att. 11, 15 fin.: curas his dictis, Verg. A. 2, 775; 3, 153 et saep.: ex dignitate populi (opp. adicere), Liv. 34, 54; cf.: de vi magistratus, id. 3, 33 fin.: lex ipsa per se dempto auctore, even without its author, Liv. 2, 42; cf.: dempto fine, without end, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 2: addere aut demere ad haec (verba), Vulg. 1 Mac. 8, 30.