Definition of purify

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Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.

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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..
Fumigate :: Fumigate (n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors..
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.
Edulcorate :: Edulcorate (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc..
Sublime :: Sublime (v. t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify..
Circumcise :: Circumcise (v. t.) To purify spiritually.
Ceresin :: Ceresin (n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax..
Expiate :: Expiate (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.
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..
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine..
Clean :: Clean (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse..
Sublimatory :: Sublimation (n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes..
Depurative :: Depurative (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
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..
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..
Edulcorative :: Edulcorative (a.) Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.
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