Definitions for: Purify


[v] remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distiilation; "purify the water"
[v] make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
[v] become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"



Webster (1913) Definition: Pu"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purified; p. pr. & vb.
n. Purifying.] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure +
-ficare (in comp.) to make. See Pure, and -fy.]
1. 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.

2. Hence, in figurative uses:
(a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify
the heart.

And fit them so Purified to receive him pure.
--Milton.
(b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar, . . . and purified the
altar. --Lev. viii.
15.

Purify both yourselves and your captives. --
Num. xxxi. 19.
(c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to
purify a language. --Sprat.


Pu"ri*fy, v. i.
To grow or become pure or clear.

Synonyms: distill, make pure, sanctify, sublimate

See Also: alter, ameliorate, amend, better, change, improve, lustrate, meliorate, purge, rectify, refine, spiritualise, spiritualize

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