dealbo

dĕ-albo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [albus], to whiten over, to whitewash, to parget, plaster (good prose, but rare):

columnas,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55 fin. (twice):

parietes,

Pall. 1, 24, 1; Suet. Gall. 9; Vitr. 7, 4.—Prov.: duo parietes de eadem fidelia, Curius ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; v. fidelia.—In eccl. Lat., to purify, cleanse:

in sanguine Agni,

Vulg. Apoc. 7, 14.— Pass., to be white, Vulg. Psa. 50, 8 al.—Hence, dĕalbātus, a, um, P. a., whitewashed, plastered:

sepulchra,

Vulg. Matt. 23, 27; cf. August. Conf. 7, 6.