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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
purifying
adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn:
purgatorial, purging, purifying]
2: freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying
agent" [ant: adulterant, adulterating]
3: acting like an antiseptic [syn: cleansing, purifying]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Purified (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Purifying (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]"[i^]ng).] [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.
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2. Hence, in figurative uses:
(a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify
the heart.
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And fit them so
Purified to receive him pure. --Milton.
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(b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
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And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar, . . . and purified the
altar. --Lev. viii.
15.
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Purify both yourselves and your captives. --
Num. xxxi. 19.
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(c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to
purify a language. --Sprat.
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Thesaurus Results for Purifying:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
abstergent, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, cathartic, cleaning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, depurative, detergent, diuretic, emetic, expiatory, expurgatory, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purging, purificatory, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, squaring |
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