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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Lustrate :: Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; 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..
Edulcorant :: Edulcorant (a.) Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine..
Purify :: Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
Lustration :: Lustration (n.) The act of lustrating or purifying.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..
Air :: Air (n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room..
Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
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..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
Depurative :: Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
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..
Repurify :: Repurify (v. t.) To purify again.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous..
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..
Circumcise :: Circumcise (v. t.) To purify spiritually.
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..
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