Purify

['pjʊərɪfaɪ] or ['pjʊrɪfaɪ]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; 'purify the water'.

(verb.) make pure or free from sin or guilt; 'he left the monastery purified'.

(verb.) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; 'The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify'.

艾迪整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

(v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

(v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.

編輯:尼特

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Clear, clean, cleanse, clarify, purge, free from impurity, make pure.[2]. Defecate (as liquors).

錄入:斯科特

同義詞及反義詞：

[See PURGE]

艾丽莎手打

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make pure: to cleanse from foreign or hurtful matter: to free from guilt or uncleanness: to free from improprieties or barbarisms as language.—v.i. to become pure:—pa.t. and pa.p. pū′rifīed.—n. Purificā′tion act of purifying: (B.) the act of cleansing ceremonially by removing defilement: a cleansing of the soul from moral guilt or defilement: a crushing of desire after anything evil: the pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion the wine being then drunk by the priest.—adj. Pū′rificātive.—n. Pū′rificātor.—adj. Pū′rificātory tending to purify or cleanse.—n. Pū′rifier.—Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary a feast observed in the R.C. Church on February 2d in commemoration of the purification of the Virgin Mary according to the Jewish ceremonial (Lev. xii. 2) forty days after the birth of Christ.

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