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Reynolds, if the ladies' prayers are of any avail, you ought to be purely. Mi Edge worth, Absentee, xvi. ( Davies. ) "Lawk a' ma ey, Mr. Benjamin," cries a stout motherly woman in a red cloak, as they enter the field, "be that you? Well I never! you do look purely." T. Hughes , Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 2. purene (pūrʼnes), n . The state or quality of being pure; purity. ( a ) An unmixed state; separation or freedom from any heterogeneous or foreign matter: as, the purene of water or other liquor; the purene of a metal; the purene of air. (b) Freedom from improper words, phrases, or modes of speech: as, purene of style. (c) Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt; moral cleanne ; innocence. He was all purene , and his outward part But represents the picture of his heart. Cowley, Death of John Little ton. purfilet, v. and n . An obsolete form of purfle . purfie (per'fl), v.; pret. and pp. purfted , ppr. purfling . [Early mod. E. also purfile , pour fill ; purfilen , purfylen , OF.pour filer , porfiler , F. pour filer , also parfiler = parfiler = It. pro fil are , embroi der, border, pro , before,+ before, + filum , thread: see pro- and files , and cf. profile , from the same ult. source. Hence, by contr., contr., purB .] I. trans . 1. To ornament or decorate with a wrought or flowered border; border. Specifically- ( a ) To embroider on the edge or margin. purfle Hue was purfild with peloure non purere in erthe, And coroned with a corone the kynge hath no betere. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 10. A goodly lady clad in scarlot red, Purfled with gold and pearle of rich a ay. Spenser , F. Q., I. ii. 13. After they have wash'd the Body they put it on a Flannel Shirt, which has commonly a Sleeve purfled about the Wrists. The inquisitors had a discretion to allow the accused to make the canonical purgation by oath instead of undergoing corporal torture, but the rule which allows this to be done at the same time discountenances it as fallacious. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 463. purgative (pėr'ga-tiv), a . and n . [F. purga tif = Pr. purgatiu = Sp. Pg. It. purgativo , purgativus , cleansing, cathartic, purgare , Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the intestines; cathartic. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, pp. purgatus , cleanse: see purge .] I. a. 1. [I. 54. The unburnt end o' the very candle, Sirs, Purfled with paint so prettily round and round, He carried in such state last Peter's day.