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Purify

Purify Meaning & Definition
Purify Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Purify?

[v] remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distiilation; "purify the water"
[v] make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
[v] become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Purify: distill | make pure | sanctify | sublimate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Purify:

See Also | alter | ameliorate | amend | better | change | improve | lustrate | meliorate | purge | rectify | refine | spiritualise | spiritualize

Purify In Webster's Dictionary

\Pu"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Purifying}.] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Pure}, and {-fy}.] 1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. And fit them so Purified to receive him pure. --Milton. (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. --Lev. viii. 15. Purify both yourselves and your captives. -- Num. xxxi. 19. (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. --Sprat.
\Pu"ri*fy\, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.

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