IMPURE

a. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

2.
a.

Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.

3.
a.

Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. "Impure desires." Cowper.

4.
a.

Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.

5.
a.

Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.

6.
v.

To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.


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