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purify

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "free from spiritual pollution," from Old French purefier "purify, cleanse, refine" (12c.), from Latin purificare "to make pure," from purus "pure" (see pure ) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious ). Meaning "free from extraneous matter" ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To make pure ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" [syn: sublimate , make pure , distill ] make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purge , sanctify ...

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities 2 To free (someone) from guilt or sin

Usage examples of purify.

And yet none of these things purifies man at all unless he examines himself, sees his sins, acknowledges them, condemns himself on account of them, and repents by desisting from them, and does all this as of himself, yet with the acknowledgment in heart that he does so from the Lord.

In opposition to the anthropopathism of the Jewish Scriptures, the Alexandrian Jews endeavored to purify the idea of God from all admixture of the Human.

Christians and dead brutes, and purified by the odoriferous introduction of gas water and puddle water, joined to a pleasant and healthy amalgamation of all the impurities of the common sewers.

The grains of Anta, that would be used in purifying you, would cost ten times as much.

With a slow movement, he raised three times the asperges brush, and he purified him with a gentle rain.

After an early breakfast, the 505th lined up to draw ammunition and field rations, along with atabrine pills to prevent malaria, pills to purify water, and anti-fatigue pills.

Diomede, of transmuting brass into gold, discovered the necessity of purifying his gold from the mixture of baser alloy.

The surface of the basho has been purified and sanctified by salt by the visiting priests.

But even though it was in a bad mood, the Blabbermouth was at least making sense for a change, which meant a unicorn must have come out of the woods last night and purified it.

He had met trick pools like these before in caves, pools into which the water entered without bubbles to mark its current, the water so purified of those minerals and microorganisms that give it its tint of color.

The only desire of ceremonialists like Lancelot Andrewes and his disciple William Laud was to distort this precious purified religion of the word.

Father near at hand: and the day must come when Light and Truth, and the Just and Good shall be victorious, and Darkness, Error, Wrong, and Evil be annihilated, and known no more forever: That the Universe is one great Harmony, in which, according to the faith of all nations, deep-rooted in all hearts in the primitive ages, Light will ultimately prevail over Darkness, and the Good Principle over the Evil: and the myriad souls that have emanated from the Divinity, purified and ennobled by the struggle here below, will again return to perfect bliss in the bosom of God to offend against Whose laws will then be no longer possible.

A marriageable young lady is a product of maternal industry, which takes ten years to fructify, and needs from five to six more years of study on the part of the husband to purify, strip, and restore to its real shape.

The winter suit he was wearing at that moment was as much like a spacesuit as the designers could make it, and the frigid numbing downvalley breeze was like breathing purified oxygen just gasified from liquid stock, and insufficiently warmed.

I washed her splendid bosom with rosewater, so as to purify it from the blood by which it had been dyed for the first time.