Definition of purify

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Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

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Exorcise :: Exorcise (v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Lustrate :: Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
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..
Edulcorant :: Edulcorant (a.) Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
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..
Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..
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..
Depurative :: Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
Purify :: 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..
Ceresin :: Ceresin (n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax..
Depure :: Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify.
Purifying :: Purifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purif.
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..
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..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
Purrificatory :: Purrificatory (a.) Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
Montanist :: Montanist (n.) A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life..
Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..
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..
Edulcorative :: Edulcorative (a.) Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
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