Purified
['pjʊrə'fai]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Purify
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Examples
- The gas, when purified, is conveyed to the gas-holder, whence it is forced by pressure into the mains and pipes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Why should he suppose it necessary to be purified by suffering for his holiday clothes? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There was a real sustained attempt to unite all Christendom under a purified and reorganized church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The air must first be purified and dried. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It establishes a purified medium of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Therefore, I will have it cleared; I will have it purified of you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The gas is mingled with various volatile products as it issues from the retort, and requires to be purified before it is fitted for illumination. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I feel my inborn admiration of all that is noble, and great, and good, purified by the breath of heaven on an evening like this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When the fascists purified the town they shot first the father. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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