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Definition of Purify

1. Verb. Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation. "Purify the water"

2. Verb. Make pure or free from sin or guilt. "He left the monastery purified"

3. Verb. Become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin. "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

Definition of Purify

1. v. t. 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.

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

Definition of Purify

1. Verb. To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities ¹

2. Verb. To free (someone) from guilt or sin ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purify

1. to free from impurities [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purify

purging purgings puri purification purifications purificative purificator purificators purificatory purified

purifier purifiers purifies puriform purify (current term) purifying purile purims purin purine

purinergic purinergic receptor purinergic receptors purinergically purines puring purinic purinoceptor purinoreceptor

Literary usage of Purify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
""QUIET" BREATHING USED BY WEAKLINGS—AN ABOMINATION—DOES NOT purify ALL OF BLOOD SENT TO LUNGS—OTHER COMMON ERRORS IN REGARD TO BREATHING. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"From this principle he justly concluded that the man who presumes to reign should aspire to the perfection of the divine nature ; that he should purify his ..."

3. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"To purify New York Harbor The report of Col. William M. Black, Engineering Corps, USA, and Prof. Earle B. Phelps, '99, of the Massachusetts Institute of ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see purify. 8. See CONTAMINATE. sun, n. 1. sol (mythol. or poetic), Phoebus (flg. or Greek myth. ..."

5. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"It excites; it distresses; it astonishes; it entrances ; but it fails to purify, and by purifying to elevate and to strengthen. ..."

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