Purifier


[pyoo r-uh-fahy] /ˈpyʊər əˌfaɪ/

verb (used with object), purified, purifying.
1.
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates:
to purify metals.
2.
to free from foreign, extraneous, or objectionable elements:
to purify a language.
3.
to free from guilt or evil.
4.
to clear or purge (usually followed by of or from).
5.
to make clean for ceremonial or ritual use.
verb (used without object), purified, purifying.
6.
to become pure.
/ˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪə/
noun
1.
a device or substance that frees something of extraneous, contaminating, or debasing matter
/ˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ/
verb -fies, -fying, -fied
1.
to free (something) of extraneous, contaminating, or debasing matter
2.
(transitive) to free (a person, etc) from sin or guilt
3.
(transitive) to make clean, as in a ritual, esp the churching of women after childbirth
n.

late 15c., agent noun from purify; as a type of mechanical apparatus, from 1834.
v.

early 14c., “free from spiritual pollution,” from Old French purefier “purify, cleanse, refine” (12c.), from Latin purificare “to make pure,” from purus “pure” (see pure) + root of facere “to make” (see factitious). Meaning “free from extraneous matter” is recorded from mid-15c. Related: Purified; purifying.

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