Search the Dictionary

Same as Purpleheart.

Somewhat purple. Boyle.

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.

Without purport or meaning.

in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Milton. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.

Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. -- Pur"pose*ful*ly, adv.

Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.

With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.

One who forms a purpose; one who intends.

Having or indicating purpose or design. "Purposive characters." Bastian. Purposive modification of structure in a bone. Owen. It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these. Huxley.

Purple. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor. Bacon.

sated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to purpura.

Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

Of a purple color; purple.

A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.

Of or pertaining to purpura. Dunglison.