- (v.i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
- (v.t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
- (v.t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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