obliviate

verb

1. To forget; to wipe from existence.

   archaic, transitive

   Time has not yet obliviated the veneration of our jacobins for France, while she was seething with faction and blood […]

Where it comes from

From oblivion + -ate (verb-forming suffix), itself either from Old French oblivion (13th century) or directly from Latin oblīviō, ultimately from oblīvīscor (“to forget”), originally “even out, smooth over, erase”; further perhaps from ob- (“against, towards”) + the root of lēvis (“smooth”) + -scor (“forming inchoative verbs”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry obliviate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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