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- English Word Purfled Definition Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.
- English Word Purflew Definition A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
- English Word Purflew Definition A border of any heraldic fur.
- English Word Purfling Definition Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
- English Word Purgament Definition That which is excreted; excretion.
- English Word Purgament Definition A cathartic; a purgative.
- English Word Purgation Definition The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.
- English Word Purgation Definition The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.
- English Word Purgative Definition Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
- English Word Purgative Definition A purging medicine; a cathartic.
- English Word Purgatively Definition In a purgative manner.
- English Word Purgatorial Definition Alt. of Purgatorian
- English Word Purgatorian Definition Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
- English Word Purgatorian Definition One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
- English Word Purgatory Definition Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
- English Word Purgatory Definition A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
- English Word Purge Definition To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
- English Word Purge Definition To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
- English Word Purge Definition To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
- English Word Purge Definition To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
- English Word Purge Definition To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
- English Word Purge Definition To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
- English Word Purge Definition To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
- English Word Purge Definition To become pure, as by clarification.
- English Word Purge Definition To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- English Word Purge Definition The act of purging.
- English Word Purge Definition That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- English Word Purged Definition of Purge
- English Word Purger Definition One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
- English Word Purgery Definition The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.