PPage 742
- English Word Purging Definition of Purge
- English Word Purging Definition That purges; cleansing.
- English Word Purging Definition The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.
- English Word Puri Definition See Euxanthin.
- English Word Purification Definition 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.
- English Word Purification Definition The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
- English Word Purification Definition A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
- English Word Purificative Definition Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.
- English Word Purificator Definition One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.
- English Word Purified Definition of Purify
- English Word Purifier Definition One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
- English Word Puriform Definition In the form of pus.
- English Word Purify Definition 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.
- English Word Purify Definition Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
- English Word Purify Definition To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
- English Word Purify Definition To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
- English Word Purify Definition To grow or become pure or clear.
- English Word Purifying Definition of Purify
- English Word Purim Definition A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.
- English Word Purism Definition Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.