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Impure   /ɪmpjˈʊr/   Listen
adjective
Impure  adj.  
1.
Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
2.
Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; said of persons or things.
3.
Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. "Impure desires."
4.
(Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
5.
(Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.


verb
Impure  v. t.  To defile; to pollute. (Obs.)





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"Impure" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Foods; Nutrient Content and Sanitary Condition of Food; Sources of Contamination of Food; Unclean Ways of Handling Food; Sanitary Inspection of Food; Infection from Impure Air; Storage of Food in Cellars; Respiration of Vegetable Cells; Sunlight, Pure Water, and Pure Air as Disinfectants; Foods contaminated from Leaky Plumbing; Utensils for Storage of Food; Contamination from Unclean ...
— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value • Harry Snyder
... water, he saw the dismembered kangaroo, and, seizing one of the legs, tore the flesh from the bones and with ravenous greed began an uncleanly feast. The impure drank of the pure water and gulped the strong flesh until his gorged stomach swelled cask-shape, and then he slept as noisily as he had eaten ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... and make him humble; that could put courage into a coward and strike dead the courage of the bravest; that could appease resentments and real hatreds; that could make the doubter believe and the hopeless hope again; that could purify the impure mind; that could persuade—ah, there it is—persuasion! that is the word; what or who is it that it couldn't persuade? The maniac of Domremy—the fairy-banishing priest—the reverend tribunal of Toul—the doubting and superstitious Laxart—the obstinate veteran of Vaucouleurs—the ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
... a degeneration of body and mind are not satisfactorily ascertained. Extreme poverty, impure air, filthiness of person and dwelling, unwholesome diet, the use of water impregnated with some of the magnesian salts, intemperance, (particularly in the use of the cheap and vile brandy of Switzerland,) and the intermarriage of near relatives and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various
... chief causes of illness among the colonists, impure water, we did not have to contend with. In the early days of James Towne, the river was the only water supply; later, shallow wells were dug; both the river and the wells furnished impure, brackish water. To-day, two artesian wells are flowing ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins


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