单词 | purified |
释义 | purifiedadj. That has been made pure; morally, spiritually, or physically cleansed; (or a substance) freed from contaminants or impurities. ΚΠ a1475 (?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 364 (MED) O puryfyed lady, be now our gyde. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 166 (MED) Lett hym vse a puryfyid vnguent. a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 272 Haile purifyet perle. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession 133 Thei were made of the moste beste and purified mettall of mane. 1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 325/2 This purifyed Gold is more estimed then the minerall. 1662 K. Evans & S. Chevers Short Relation Cruel Sufferings 78 Thou art full of Love, thou tender-hearted one, who hath offered up thy sanctified body, and purified life, in obedience to the Lord. 1742 W. Law Appeal to All that Doubt ii. 170 When the Eternal Springs of the purified Heart are stirr'd. 1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 63 There are..persons who have denied the magnetism of purified nickel. 1836 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 4) 495 The specific gravity of purified coal-gas is liable to much variation. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 27 That purified religion..of which he speaks. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. IV. 360/1 [The United Party] was..weakened by the defection of Malan's ‘purified’ National Party. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 24 Couscous is derived from the purified middle of the wheat grain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1475 |
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