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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
purify
v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and
separate through the process of distillation; "purify the
water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill]
2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify]
3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies
came to the ashram in order to purify"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, v. i.
To grow or become pure or clear.
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3. 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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4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
Purify
A debugging tool from Pure Software.
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Thesaurus Results for purify:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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