Pure

pur, a. Separate from all extraneous matter or defilement free from mixture free from that which contaminates, defiles, or blemishes; unconnected with anything else mere; absolute; clear; simple; real genuine unadulterated; unstained; clean; fair; chaste; undefiled innocent; guilele ; holy. [ME. and F. pur, fern, pure, L. pur us Skr. pu, to purify, E. fire, pit, bureau, compute, repute, amputate, deputy, count, etc.] — Purely, adv. In a pure manner; innocently; without connection with, or dependence upon, anything else; merely; absolutely.—Pure'ne , n.—Pulity, -ri-ti, n. Condition of being pure; as, freedom from foreign admixture or heterogeneous matter; or, from foulne or dirt; or, from guilt or the defilement of sin; or, from any sinister or improper views; or, from foreign idioms, barbarous or improper words, phrases, etc. [F. purete", L. puritas.] — Purism, -izm, n. Quality of being pure or nice, esp. in the choice of language. — Purist, n. One who aims at exce ive purity or nicety, esp. in language. — PuHtan, -rit an, n. (Eng. Church.) A di enter from the Ch. of Eug. in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the Stuarts. One scrupulous and strict in his religious — a. Pert, to, resembling, or characterizing the Puritans. — Puritanic, -ical, a. Pert, to the Puritans, or their doctrines and practice; precise inobservance of religious requirements; over scrupulous; rigid. — Puritanically, adv. — Pu'ritanism, n. The notions or practice of Puritans. — Purge, p§rj, v. [purged (perjd), purging.] To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, foreign, or superfluous; to operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine; to clear from guilt or moral defilement. (Law.) To clear from — accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal. v.i. To become pure, as by clarification to have frequent or preternatural evacuations from the intestines. — n. Act of purging; that which purges; esp. a medicine that evacuates the intestines a cathartic. [F. purger, L. purgare, -atum, for purigare, pur us and agere, to make, cause; expurgate.] — Pur'ger, n. — Purga'tion, n. Act of purging, cleansing, or purifying often, the act of cleansing from the imputation of guilt. [F.] Pur'gative, -tiv, a. Having the power of purging; cathartic. — n. (Med.) A medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. — Pur'gatory, -to-ri, a. Tending to cleanse expiatory. — n. (Bom. Cath. Ch.) A place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified, or in which they expiate such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation. [F. purgatoire, f L. pur gator i us, cleansing.] — Purga-— toiial, -to'rt-al, -rian, a. Pert, to purgatory.