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See Euxanthin.

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 it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.

Having power to purify; tending to cleanse. [R.]

One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

In the form of pus.

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.

A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Esther ix. 26.

Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the…

One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to purists or purism.

f faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.

Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.

In a puritanical manner.

The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.

To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans. Bp. Montagu.

freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.

See Depuration.

Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.