Definition of purify

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Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..

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Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..
Expiate :: Expiate (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.
Try :: Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc..
Depurative :: Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Depurate :: Depurate (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse..
Lustration :: Lustration (n.) The act of lustrating or purifying.
Circumcise :: Circumcise (v. t.) To purify spiritually.
Unsensualize :: Unsensualize (v. t.) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Expurgatory :: Expurgatory (a.) Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Purificative :: Purificative (a.) Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.
Exorcise :: Exorcise (v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Purification :: Purification (n.) The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals..
Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings..
Rectify :: Rectify (v. t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine..
Purrificatory :: Purrificatory (a.) Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
Refinery :: Refinery (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar..
Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..
Sublime :: Sublime (v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
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