'Purifying' definitions:
Definition of 'purifying'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn: purgatorial, purging, purifying]
adjective
Freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent" [ant: adulterant, adulterating]
adjective
Acting like an antiseptic [syn: cleansing, purifying]
Definition of 'Purifying'
From: GCIDE
- Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purified (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Purifying (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]"[i^]ng).] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Pure, and -fy.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. [1913 Webster]
- And fit them so Purified to receive him pure. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. [1913 Webster]
- And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. --Lev. viii. 15. [1913 Webster]
- Purify both yourselves and your captives. -- Num. xxxi. 19. [1913 Webster] (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'purifying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstergent,
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- cathartic,
- cleaning,
- cleansing,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- depurative,
- detergent,
- diuretic,
- emetic,
- expiatory,
- expurgatory,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purging,
- purificatory,
- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- squaring