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verb

Purify v. t. (past & past part. purified; pres. part. purifying)

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.

Hence, in figurative uses:

(a)

To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. "And fit them so Purified to receive him pure."

(b)

To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. "And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar,... and purified the altar." "Purify both yourselves and your captives."

(c)

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

Purify v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.

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Etymology of 'Purify'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Purify" Quotes from Famous Books

... lord. In Russia, all distinctions of rank cease in the presence of the ruler; there is but one lord, and one trembling slave, be he prince or beggar, and that lord must be obeyed, whether he commands a murder or any other crime. The word and will of the emperor purify and sanctify every act, blessing ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... of nature. In the parable of the fruit-bearing earth Jesus shows His faith in the growth of the good, and hence in the adaptation of the truth to the human soul. In the parables of the leaven, the light, and salt Jesus illustrates the gradual power of truth to pervade, illumine, and purify the life of humanity. His method of bringing about this {138} good is the contagion of the good life. His motive is the sense of the need of men. And His goal is the establishment of the kingdom of love—a ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

... to change and remodel his body and to cure it of all ills. The fountain of life is the will, and if the will is good and pure and not poisoned by the imagination, a pure blood and a strong and healthy body will be the result. If the imagination (thought) is pure, it will purify the will and expel from the latter the elements of evil. The fundamental doctrine of the most rational system of medicine is therefore the purification of the Will and the Imagination, and every one ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 - Volume 1, Number 9 • Various

... hardly a word—Doc Lyon just went on and told about settin' Bender's house on fire to purify the abomination of the dwelling, he said, where ...

— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

... which he records his impression of Goethe at the moment when both first made the acquaintance of the Darmstadt society. "I shall be accompanied (to Darmstadt)," he wrote, "by a young friend of the highest promise who, through his strenuous endeavours to purify his soul, without unnerving it, is to me worthy of special honour."[115] The purification had indeed begun, but Goethe had to pass through many fires before the purification was complete. One such ...

— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown

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