purge

t. & i. [Fr. purger, from Lat. pur go, for puri go, from pur us =pure, and ago =to do, make, or cause; Sp. & Port. purgar; Ital. purgare.] A. Transitive : 1. To cleanse or purify by removing, separating, or carrying off impurities or superfluities; to clear or free from impurities. 2. To clarify, to defecate, as liquors. 3. To remove by cleansing or purification; to wash or clear away. (Generally followed by away or off .) "Purge away my sins."- Psalm 1xxix. 9. 4. To make atonement or satisfaction for; to clear or free from consequences. 5. To clear or free from moral defilement, pollution, or guilt. (Followed by of , off , or from .) "The blood of Christ shall purge our conscience from dead works."- Hebrews ix. 14. 6. To clear from accusation or suspicion of a crime. "To purge himself with words." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , v. 6. 7. To operate on by means of a purge or cathartic. *8. To void, to secrete. "Their eyes purging thick amber."-Shakesp.: Hamlet, ii. 2. IMG:content-1743.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Church Hist .: The name given, at first perhaps in contempt, to those clergymen and others in the reign of the English Queen Elizabeth, who desired a simpler, and what they considered to be a purer, pūrg-Ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [PURGE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the form of worship than the civil and ecclesiastical C. As substantive : 1. The act of cleansing; purgation. 2. A diarrhea or dysentery; loosene of the bowels. 3. That which is evacuated or excreted; a deposit. "The purginges of the seas beinge then esteemed, as man's fansy woulde make the price."- Brende : Quintus purging-cock, s . Curtius, fol. 233. authorities sanctioned. The Puritan controversy commenced as early as 1550, when Hooper, appointed to the See of Gloucester, refused to be consecrated in the ecclesiastical vestments then in use. The name first given to those who objected to vestments and ceremonies was Nonconformists. According to Fuller it was not till 1564, or according to Strype till 1569, that the name Puritan arose. When, toward the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign, many of the Anglican clergy began to lean toward Arm in i an ism, the Puritans remained sternly Calvin Puritans. Steam Eng.: The mud-cock or discharge-valve of istic. New England was settled very largely by the a steam-boiler.