Definition of purify

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Purify (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..

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Depure :: Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify.
Repurify :: Repurify (v. t.) To purify again.
Expurgatory :: Expurgatory (a.) Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Expiate :: Expiate (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
Sublime :: Sublime (v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify..
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Exorcise :: Exorcise (v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Purify :: Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
Petrolatum :: Petrolatum (n.) A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments..
Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine..
Elutriate :: Elutriate (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing..
Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
Fumigatory :: Fumigatory (a.) Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..
Refinery :: Refinery (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar..
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