Purified

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Purified} (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Purifying} (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]"[i^]ng).] [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.
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     2. Hence, in figurative uses:
        (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify
            the heart.
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                  And fit them so
                  Purified to receive him pure.     --Milton.
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        (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
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                  And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
                  horns of the altar, . . . and purified the
                  altar.                            --Lev. viii.
                                                    15.
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                  Purify both yourselves and your captives. --
                                                    Num. xxxi. 19.
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        (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to
            purify a language. --Sprat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purified
       adj : made pure [syn: {refined}, {sublimate}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purify
       v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and
            separate through the process of distillation; "purify
            the water" [syn: {sublimate}, {make pure}, {distill}]
       2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
          purified" [syn: {purge}, {sanctify}]
       3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies
          came to the ashram in order to purify"
       [also: {purified}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purified
       See {purify}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "purified":
     absolute, bare, bowdlerized, clarified, cleaned, cleaned up,
     cleansed, clear, distilled, expurgated, naked, neat, purged,
     rectified, refined, reformed, sheer, spruce, straight, tidy,
     unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded,
     uncorrupted, undiluted, unfortified, unleavened, unmingled,
     unmixed, unsophisticated, untinged