About The Word Purify
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Purify
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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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