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.
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To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
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To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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To change or modify in any way for the better
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
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To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…
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To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spir…
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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 i…
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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 i…
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See Distill.
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To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
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To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
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To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
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To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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