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Purify   /pjˈʊrəfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Purify  v. t.  (past & past part. purified; pres. part. purifying)  
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."
(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." "Purify both yourselves and your captives."
(c)
To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.



Purify  v. i.  To grow or become pure or clear.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Purify" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolved to linger yet a little longer, until want and suffering should leave her no choice. His passion for her was one of those insanities to which men of his violent character are often liable. He desired her as the one great gift, which was to purify, to exalt him in the scale of humanity. The delicate beauty of her person, the sensibility of her soul, the grace of her manner, rendered her irresistibly attractive to him; but so selfish was his love, that he would sooner have seen her perish at his feet, than ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

... knowledge lives in our hearts, we must, with the purely practical view of satisfying this want, strive after knowledge in all things, even in those which do not contribute towards external comfort, and have no use except that they purify and invigorate the mind.... What is theory in the eyes of Bacon? 'A temple in the human mind, according to the model of the world.' What is it in the eyes of Mr. Macaulay? A snug dwelling, according to the wants of practical life. The latter is satisfied ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... contends that a cream separator purifies the milk that passes through it. I say that it does not purify the milk. I agree that it does take out some of the heavy particles of dirt and filth, but that it cannot take out what is already in ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... scene 4), "Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound." The medical treatment of melancholia contained in Burton consists mainly of herbs, as borage, supposed to affect the heart, poppies to act on the head, eupatory (teazel) on the liver, wormwood on the stomach, and endive to purify the blood. Vomits of white hellebore or antimony, and purges of black ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... universe was one great divine musical instrument, as it were, in which stars, sun, winds, and earth did their part, and that man ought to join himself into the same sweet harmony. He thought that if a man did ill his spirit went into some animal, and had a fresh trial to purify it, but it does not seem as if many ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge


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