With these powers were combined others of a purely judicial character

Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 9. 3. Very; wonderfully; remarkably: as, purely well. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Purely jealous I would have her. R. Jonson , Poetaster, ii. 1. He is purely happy, because he knowes no euill, nor hath made meanes by sinne to bee acquainted with misery. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Childe. 4. Innocently; without guilt or sin; chastely. precisely than the Aristo tel i ans, the Cartes i ans found it nece ary to employ, in ordinary, for the sake of discrimination, the expre ion pure intellect (L. intellect us pur us ) in contrast to sense and imagination . This phrase was, however, borrowed from the schools, who again borrowed it, through the medium of St. Augustine, from the Platonists. Sir W. Hamilton , Reid, note A, § 5, Supplementary Di ertations. - Pure logic. (a) See logic . (b) Logic based solely on a prior i principles; a canon of the understanding and of the reason in reference to the formal element. Kant . - Pure mathematics. See mathematics . - Pure natural science, the science of the a prior i laws of nature, such as “substance is permanent," and "every event is completely determined by causes." Kant . - Pure obligation, in Scots law . See obligation . - Pure power. See power1 . Pure proof, an a prior i proof, drawing nothing from experience. - Pure propositiont, a non-modal proposition in which the predicate is applied to the subject without qualification. - Pure reason. See reason1 . -Pure representation, a representation which contains no matter of experience. Kant . - Pure scarlet. See scarlet. Pure syllogism, in the scholastic logic , a nonmodal syllogism composed of pure propositions; in the Kantian logic , one which involves no immediate inference; direct syllogism. - Pure synthesis, one whose manifold a truth.-Pure villeinage. See villeinage . The pure ego. See ego . Syn. 7. Uncorrupted, incorrupt, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unstained, clean, fair, unspotted, unpolluted, undefiled, immaculate, guiltle , holy.