Puritanical and superstitious principles

I. Walton. It is quite certain that Bunyan was, at eighteen, what, in any but the most austerely puritanical circles, would have been considered as a young man of singular gravity and innocence. Macaulay , Encyc. Brit., IV. 526. puritanically (pū-ri-tan'i-kal-i), adv . In a puritanical manner; with the exact or rigid notions or manners of the Puritans. puritanism (pūʼri-tan-izm), n. [= F. purita nis me = Sp. Pg.puritanismo ; as puritan + -ism . ] 1. Strictne of religious life; puritanic strict ne in religious matters.-2. The principles and practices of the Puritans. How resplendent and superb was the poetry that lay at the heart of Puritanism was seen by the sightle eyes of John Milton, whose great epic is indeed the epic of Puri tanism . M. C. Tyler , Hist. Amer. Lit., I. 266. puritanize (pūʼri-tan-iz), v . i .; pret.and pp.puri tanized , ppr. puritanizing . [ purity (pū'ri-ti), n. [ purete , pu rete , F. pureté = Sp. puridad = Pg. puridade = It. pur ità , purita ( t- ) s , cleanne , purene , pur us , clean, pure: see pure .] The condition or quality of being pure. (a) Freedom from From his lips did fly Thin winding breath, which purl'd up to the sky. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1407. Off from the shore each morning, driving up The billows far to sea. 2. To upset; overturn; capsize. [Slang.] See the quotation under II., 2. II. trans . 1. To whirl about; cause to ro- tate: as, the wind purls a snow-drift.-2. Το I pyrle wyre of golde or syluer, I wynde it vpon a whele Palsgrave . ( Jamie son .) purl2 (pėrl), п . [ purl2 , v . Cf. purll , n .] 1. a ripple; an eddy. =Syn. (c) and ( d ) Immaculatene , guilele ne , honesty, integrity, virtue, modesty. (f) Purity , Propriety , Preci- sion. As a quality of style, "Purity relates to three things, viz, the form of words [etymology], the construc- tion of words in continuous discourse-[syntax], and the meaning of words and phrases [lexicography]." ( A. Phelps , Eng. Style, p. 9.) "Propriety. relates to the signification of language as fixed by usage." (A. Phelps , Eng. Style, p. 79.) "The offences against the usage of the English language are. improprieties , words or phrases used in a sense not English." ( A. S. Hill , Rhet., p. 19.) "An author's diction is pure when he uses such words only as belong to the idiom of the language, in opposition to words that are foreign, obsolete, newly coined, or without A violation of purity is called a proper authority. barbarism. But another question arises. Is the word used correctly in the sentence in which it occurs? A writer who fails in this respect offends against pro- priety." (J. S. Hart , Comp. and Rhet., pp. 68, 74.) "Pre- cision includes all that is e ential to the expre ion of no more, no le , and no other than the meaning which the writer purposes to expre ." ( A. Phelps , Eng. Style, p. 6.) Purkinje's cells. See cells of Purkinje , under Purkinje's fibers. Large beaded and reticulat- ed fibers found in the sub endocardial ti ue of some animals, and occasionally in man. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. The brooks run purling down with silver waves. Parnell , Health. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope , Iliad, xxi. 297. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break, And purl along the untrodden wilderne . IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] Whose stream an easie breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles , As though the waves had been of silver curles. Drayton, Mor timer i ados, 1. 1596. ( Richardson .) So have I seen the little purls of a spring sweat through the bottom of a bank, and intenerate the stubborn pave- ment. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 849. pur13 (pèrl), v . t . [Contr. of purfle .] 1. To or- nament with a decorative border of any sort; decorate with fringe or embroidery; purfle. For all the copes and vestementes wer but of one pece, so wouen for the purpose, cloth of ti ue and poudered with redde roses purled with fine gold. Hall , Hen. VIII., an. 12. Is thy skin whole? art thou not purl'd with scabs? Fletcher ( and another ), Sea Voyage, i. 3. 2. To invert, as a stitch in knitting; turn over and knit the other way; seam. purl3 (pėrl), n . [Contr. of purfle .] 1. A bor- der of embroi- dery or perhaps of lace, or gold lace or galloon. Throughout the fif- teenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth cen- turies the term is in use, and evidently with different significations, but always as an ornamental adjunct, an edging or the like to a garment. Also pearl . Himself came in next after a triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl. How many puffs and purls lay in a miserable case for want of stiffening [starch]! Middle ton, Father Hubbard's Tales. My lord, one of the purls of your band is, without all discipline, fallen out of his rank. 2. A spiral of gold or silver wire, used in lace- work.-3. An inversion of the stitches in knit- ting, which gives to parts of the work an ap- pearance different from the general surface, such as the ribbed appearance of those parts where great elasticity is required.-4. A plait or fold, as in an article of dre .-5. In lace- making , a kind of lace in common use in the sixteenth century, and often of great value. The term is used in the general sense as indicating the fabric spoken of, and also as denoting a certain quantity of it: as, so many shillings the purl . purl4 (perl), n. [Appar. another spelling of pearl , so called with ref. to the bubbles on the surface, pearl , v .] A drink, of which beer is the principal ingredient, defined about 1815 as hot beer mixed with gin: same as dog's -nose; ose ; in later times, a stimulating mixture of beer, gin, sugar, and ginger. It was, before coffee and tea were used, commonly made to be drunk in the morn- ing, and hence the liquor is called early purl . Early in the morning I set my books... in order. Thence, forth to Mr. Harper's to drink a draft of purle . Pepys , Diary, Feb. 19, 1660. My lord duke would have a double mug of purl . Steele , Spectator, No. 88. Mr. Swiveller... had by this time taken quite as much to drink as promised to be good for his constitution ( purl being a rather strong and heady compound). purl5t, v. A Middle English form of prowl . Prompt . Parv ., p. 417. pur16 (perl), n. [Imitative, like purr3 , etc.] The common tern, or sea-swallow. [Norfolk, Eng.] purleyt, n. An obsolete form of purlieu . IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] purl-house (pėrl'hous), n . is sold and drunk. purlicue (per'li-kū), v . t . Same as parlecue . purliet, n. An obsolete form of purlieu . purlieu (per'lū), n . [Formerly also purlue , pur- luy ; an altered form, simulating F. licu , a place (see lieu ), of purlie , purly , purley , prop. land which, having been part of a royal forest, has been severed from it by perambulation or sur- vey, pour allee , puralee , a going through or pur a about, perambulation, pour- , pur- ( pro- ), used for per- , par- ( per ) per ), through, + alee , a going: see alley1 .] 1†. Land added to a royal forest by unlawful encroachment, but after- ward disafforested, and restored to the former owners, its bounds and extent being settled by perambulation. With all amercements due To such as hunt in purley ; this is something, With mine own game reserved. Th' infernal Nimrod's halloo? The lawle purlieus ? and the game they follow?... These purlieu men are devils; and the hounds. Temptations. Quarles , Emblems, iii. 9. Land which had been once forest land and was afterwards disafforested was known as purlieu . Encyc . Brit ., IX. 409. 2. pl . The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris. Pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees? From round the purlieus of St. James, Came early. Fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law. purlin-post (per'lin-post), n . In carp ., one of the struts by which a purlin is supported to prevent it from sagging. purlman (perl man), n .; pl. purlmen (-men). A seller of the liquor called purl. purloin (per-loin'), v . [ purloynen , per- loynen , purlongen , purloignier , porloignier , prolong, retard, delay, prolong are , pro- long: see prolong . Cf. eloin, eloign.] I. trans. 11. To put off; prolong; delay. Prompt. 1 pp. 394, 417.-21. To set back or aside; put away; remove. Who that youre percept is pertely perloyned , With drede in to dede schall ye dryffe hym. IMG:content-1323.png:[blocks in formation] purlong purlongt, v. A Middle English form of purloin . purlyt, n. An obsolete form of purlieu , 1. purpartt (per'pärt), n . Same as purparty . IMG:content-1324.png:[blocks in formation] bract eat a of Guiana, or the trees themselves. Also called purple - wood . purple lip (pėr'pl-lip), n. A West Indian climbing orchid, Vanilla claviculata . fluid secreted by certain shell-fish, more fully called purple of Mollusca . — 8. pl . See purples . -Alizarin purple, a shade of purple or lilac obtained by treating fabrics with alizarin and sulphate of iron.- Aniline purple. Same as mauve .-Ethyl purple, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, being the hex a-ethyl-para purple-marbled (per'pl-mär′′bled), n . A Brit- rosaniline producing the bluest shade of violet. -Field's ish moth, Micra ostrina . purpartył (pėr'pär-ti), n .; pl. pur parties (-tiz). [Also pour party ; ME.purpartie , AF.purpar- tie , OF. porpartie (cf. ML. propars , perpars ), share of an estate, por , pur ( pro ), for, Same as purple . + partie , part: see party1 .] In law , an allot- ment; the share or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener by partition. Through which the grounde by pur parties Departed is in thre parties, That is Asie, Affrike, Europe. purpeyst, n . A Middle English form of porpoise . purple (per'pl), n . and a . [ purpul , earlier purpre , pourpre , also purpur , purpure , pur pour (cf. AS. purpure , a purple garment, purpuren, purple), pouple , pople , AF. also purpille , F. pourpre = Pr. porpra , polpra = Sp. púrpura = Pg . purpura = It. porpora = D. purper = MLG. purper , purpur = OHG. purpura , MHG. purper , G. purpur = Icel. purpuri = Sw. Dan. purpur = Goth. paurpaura , paurpura , purple, pur a , the purple-fish, purple dye, πορ φύρα , the purple-fish; cf. πορφύρεος (later also poet. πόρφυρος), purple, orig. applied to the surging sea, dark, prob. redupl. of φύρειν , mix up, mingle, confound, = L. furere , rage: see fury. Cf. porphyry , from the same Gr. source.] I. n. 1. A color formed by the mixture of blue and red, including the violet of the spectrum above wave-length 0.417 micron, which is nearly a violet-blue, and extending to but not including crimson. The following color-disk formulæ will serve to identify several purples. The red used is the most intense procurable, so that mixed with 7 per cent. of blue it gives a good carmine. IMG:content-1325.png:[blocks in formation] Of the various colors called purple at any time, the Tyrian dye (which was properly a crimson) was anciently the most celebrated. This color was produced from an animal juice found in a shell-fish called murex or conchy lium by the ancients. See Purpura , 2.