depurate (depurat)

t.; pret. and pp. depu rated, ppr. depurating. [ Chemistry enabling us to depurate bodies, and in some measure to analize them. Boyle . I... doubt whether...wars.. do not serve, as motion to waters, to depurate states of a great number of vices. Goldsmith, Hist. Seven Years' War, Pref. 2. [The prefix de- taken as priv.] To render impure. [Rare.] Priest ley began by ascertaining that air depurated by animals was purified by plants. Nature.