purify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: purify	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for purify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purify v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" Synonym(s): purify, sublimate, make pure, distill make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" Synonym(s): purify, purge, sanctify become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purify \Pu"rify\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Purify A debugging tool from Pure Software.