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purification
English
Etymology
From Old French purificacion, from Latin purificatio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pj????f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)
- The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
- A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
- (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin p?rific?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.?i.fi.ka.sj??/
Noun
purification f (plural purifications)
- purification
Related terms
- purifier
Further reading
- “purification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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purge
English
Etymology
From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin p?rg? (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from p?rus (“clean, pure”) + ag? (“I make, I do”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p?d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
purge (plural purges)
- An act of purging.
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
- A cleansing of pipes.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)
Derived terms
- Great Purge
Related terms
Translations
Verb
purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
- (transitive, religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- "What did they die of?" I asked.
"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
"He bled and purged babies?"
"They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
- "What did they die of?" I asked.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- (transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
- (transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.
- (transitive, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
Translations
Anagrams
- Grupe, repug
French
Verb
purge
- first-person singular present indicative of purger
- third-person singular present indicative of purger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of purger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of purger
- second-person singular imperative of purger
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
purge f (plural purges)
- (Jersey) purgative
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