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To tinge or dye with a purple color.

To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.

Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

ng or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.

A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory. Shaftesbury.

One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

Depurative.

Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

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

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

To depurate; to purify. [Obs.] He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

See Depuration.