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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Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means..
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..
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Unsensualize :: Unsensualize (v. t.) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Lustrate :: Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.
Purifying :: Purifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purif.
Depurative :: Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Expurgatory :: Expurgatory (a.) Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Sublimatory :: Sublimation (n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
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..
Repurify :: Repurify (v. t.) To purify again.
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..
Purrificatory :: Purrificatory (a.) Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
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..
Sprinkle :: Sprinkle (v. i.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify..
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..
Clean :: Clean (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse..
Exorcise :: Exorcise (v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
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