 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purified
adjective: made pure [syn: {refined}, {sublimate}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purify
verb
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), verb (used with an object) [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.
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 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
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