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Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n.

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate. The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.

The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." Morley.

See Desideratum.

s to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.

Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.] I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak.

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.

Desperation; virulence.

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.

To deprive of sulphur.

The act or process of depriving of sulphur.

To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.

To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.