adaperio

ăd-ăpĕrĭo, ui, ertum, 4, v. a. [ad, intens. ], to open fully, to open, throw open (not in Cic.):

adorti adapertas fores portae,

Liv. 25, 30, 10 Drak. (cf. aperire forīs, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 13); so Suet. Ner. 12; Curt. 9, 7, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 5, 3; 3, 12, 12.—

II.

Transf., to uncover, to bare:

caput,

Sen. Ep. 64; Val. Max. 5, 2, 9:

caelum,

to make visible, Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 130:

adaperta fides,

manifest, Stat. Th. 1, 396: aures ad criminationem adapertae, open to, ready to hear, Curt. 9, 7, 24.