Purification :: Purification (n.) 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..
Purification :: Purification (n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement..
Purification :: Purification (n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations..
Purificative :: Purificative (a.) Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.
Purificator :: Purificator (n.) One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To make pure or clear from material 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..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart..
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
Purify :: Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language..
Purify :: Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.