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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
1250–1300; Middle English purifien < Middle French purifier < Latin pūrificāre. See pure, -ify
Related forms
pu·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
pu·ri·fi·er, noun
non·pu·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
non·pu·ri·fy·ing, adjective
EXPANDre·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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Word Origin & History
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.
EXPAND Purification first attested c.1380; in ref. to Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, from 1389.
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