different between immure vs impure

English

Etymology

From Middle French emmurer, from Old French, from Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in (“in”), + m?rus (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mj??(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
   • 1799, Mary Meeke, Elle?mere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:

     The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.

   • 1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, Preface,

     In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.

   • 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:

     This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.

   John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

   • 1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, Volume 1, page 807,

     The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

3. To wall in.
4. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
   • 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,

     On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and ${\displaystyle v}$ rises sharply.

Synonyms

• (imprison): cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate
• (bury): inter

Derived terms

• immured

Related terms

• immurement

Translations

Noun

immure (plural immures)

1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Alternative forms

• emure

English

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
   3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)

      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery

        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

Synonyms

• imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

• pure

Related terms

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

Translations

Verb

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

References

• impure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• rumpie, umpire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Adjective

impure

1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Adjective

impure f pl

1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

imp?r? (comparative imp?rius, superlative imp?rissim?)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

Etymology 2

Adjective

imp?re

1. vocative masculine singular of imp?rus

References

• impure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette