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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
Dictionary Results for purifying:
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]

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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