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purify

[pyoor-uh-fahy] Origin

pu·ri·fy

[pyoor-uh-fahy] verb, -fied, -fy·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
2.
to free from foreign, extraneous, or objectionable elements: to purify a language.
3.
to free from guilt or evil.
4.
to clear or purge (usually followed by of or from).
5.
to make clean for ceremonial or ritual use.
verb (used without object)
6.
to become pure.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English purifien < Middle French purifier < Latin pūrificāre. See pure, -ify

pu·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
pu·rif·i·ca·to·ry [pyoo-rif-i-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective
pu·ri·fi·er, noun
non·pu·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
non·pu·ri·fy·ing, adjective
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re·pu·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
re·pu·ri·fy, verb, -fied, -fy·ing.
self-pu·ri·fy·ing, adjective
un·pu·ri·fied, adjective
un·pu·ri·fy·ing, adjective
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purify (ˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ)
 
vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
1.  to free (something) of extraneous, contaminating, or debasing matter
2.  (tr) to free (a person, etc) from sin or guilt
3.  (tr) to make clean, as in a ritual, esp the churching of women after childbirth
 
[C14: from Old French purifier, from Late Latin pūrificāre to cleanse, from pūrus pure + facere to make]
 
purifi'cation
 
n
 
purificatory
 
adj

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purify
c.1300, "free from spiritual pollution," from O.Fr. purifier (12c.), from L. purificare "to make pure," from purus "pure" (see pure) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "free from extraneous matter" is recorded from c.1440.
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Purification first attested c.1380; in ref. to Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, from 1389.
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