PU'RIFY, v.t. [L. purifico; purus, pure, and facio, to make.] 1. To make pure or clear; to free from extraneous admixture; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.2. To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services. Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment. Num.31.3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin; as, to purify the heart. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Tit.2.4. To clear form improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.PU'RIFY, v.i. To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify.
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