Definition of purify

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Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..

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Unsensualize :: Unsensualize (v. t.) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
Refinery :: Refinery (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar..
Purify :: Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
Lustration :: Lustration (n.) The act of lustrating or purifying.
Purrificatory :: Purrificatory (a.) Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.
Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar..
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..
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.
Depurate :: Depurate (v. t.) To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse..
Spiritualize :: Spiritualize (v. t.) To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul..
Fumigatory :: Fumigatory (a.) Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
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..
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..
Depure :: Depure (v. t.) To depurate; to purify.
Edulcorative :: Edulcorative (a.) Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
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