n. See Depuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. "i`ppos horse + o"y`ron urine: cf. F. hippurique. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; decked with a horse's tail; "i`ppos horse + &unr_; tail: cf. F. hippurite.] (Paleon.) A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks. [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Impurities [ L. impuritas: cf. F. impureté. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Script.) Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Euxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. purification, L. purificatio. See Purify. ] 1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished. Luke ii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. purificatif. ] Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. purificatorius. ] Serving or tending to purify; purificative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pus, puris, pus + -form: cf. F. puriforme. ] (Med.) In the form of pus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purified p. pr. & vb. n. Purifying ] [ F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Pure, and -fy. ] 1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

And fit them so
Purified to receive him pure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. Lev. viii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Purify both yourselves and your captives. Num. xxxi. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow or become pure or clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Heb. pūr, pl. pūrīm, a lot. ] A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Esther ix. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. purisme. ] Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. “His political purism.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. puriste. ] 1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Fox ] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. M. Stuart. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to purists or purism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Purity. ] 1. (Eccl. Hist.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Puritans were afterward distinguished as Political Puritans, Doctrinal Puritans, and Puritans in Discipline. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions. [ 1913 Webster ]

She would make a puritan of the devil. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a puritanical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puritanized p. pr. & vb. n. Puritanizing ] To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. purete, purte, OF. purté, F. pureté, from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See Pure. ] The condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. (b) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. “The purity of a linen vesture.” Holyday. (c) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life. (d) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. (e) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. purpurique. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Med.) Of or pertaining to purpura. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Purpuric acid was formerly used to designate murexan. See Murexan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. purpura purple + parere to produce. ] (Biol.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To purify again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. spurius. ] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. “Her spurious firstborn.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spurious primary, or
Spurious quill (Zool.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds. --
Spurious wing (Zool.), the bastard wing, or alula. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious; fictitious; bastard. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Spu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Spu"ri*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]