单词 | purifier |
释义 | purifiern. 1. A person who purifies (in various senses of the verb); a cleanser; a refiner. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification > one who purgator1548 purifier1548 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun] > one who or that which finer1437 trier1523 refiner1592 purifier1611 animal black1821 depurator1835 re-refiner1943 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > purification or refinement > one who polisher1589 ennobler1784 purifier1826 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vii. f. liii This man therfore iudged of the pristes, and beyng fowle with the very lepry, durst yet cum to Iesus, which is the purifier and clenser of all. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 42v O pituous purifier of soules. 1611 Bible (King James) Mal. iii. 3 He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of siluer. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. conc. Humility ix. 366 What an Arrest again is it to my Pride, to see thee the Fountain of Living Water, the Refiner and Purifier of thy People. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 91 The predicted Shilo, who is to be their purifier, king, prophet, and high-priest. 1826 Hallam in Edinb. Rev. 44 5 (note) One of the earliest purifiers of English style from pedantry. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey 284 Addison the noblest purifier of English literature. 1920 Glasgow Herald 3 July 5 Frederick Myall, a purifier employed at the Beckton Gosworth. 2001 Classical Philol. 96 157 Apollo spilled the Python serpent's blood and the powers of murder take hold of him, push him to flee to the heart of Crete to obtain the help of an incomparable purifier, Carmanor. 2. a. A thing that purifies (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification > that which purgerc1400 purgation?1531 purifier1609 purgative1625 1609 G. Benson Serm. 7 May 53 As is the fire vnto the golde, a purger: as is the pruning knife vnto the tree, a pruner: as is the fan vnto the wheat, a purifier:..So vnto the soule is affliction. 1660–2 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. James ii. 24 24 Faith is a great purger and purifier of the soul. 1705 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 3) 48 It's Loosening, and a Purifier of the Blood; it allays Heat and moderately loosens the Belly. 1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 70 Oxygene air, which..deserves to be considered as the true sweetner or purifier of the blood. 1841 L. E. Landon Life & Lit. Remains 292 Affection, earth's great purifier, stirs Our embers into flame. 1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. II. 914 [Zoroastrianism] considers the sun as the greatest purifier. 1921 Eastern Buddhist (Japan) 1 13 (heading) Zen Buddhism as purifier and liberator of life. 1992 Condé Nast Traveler Feb. 136/2 Traubensaft, freshly pressed grape juice..is considered a purifier if one drinks it for ten consecutive days. b. An apparatus for removing impurities from a substance; spec. (a) an apparatus in which a gas or other fluid is purified by passing it over a substance which absorbs impurities; (b) a device which mechanically separates coarser particles from flour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > removal of impurities from gas or vapour > [noun] > apparatus for purificator?1813 purifier1834 wash-bottle1849 scrubber1853 washer1853 washing-bottle1857 precipitron1938 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > sieving > sieve or riddle riddereOE riddlelOE boultel1266 temse?1362 reeing-sieve1378 bolt-clothc1425 bolt-pokec1440 bulstarec1440 bigg-riddle1446 oat riddle1446 bolting-tunc1485 bolter1530 bolting-tub1530 bolting-pipe1534 bolting-poke1552 gingerbread temse?1562 bolting-hutch1598 reeving-sieve1613 hutch1619 temzer1696 ree1728 oat-ridder1743 harp1788 bunt1796 bolting-machine1808 sowens-say1825 slap-riddle1844 bolt1847 flour-bolt1874 purifier1884 flour-bolter1888 plansifter1905 1834 Encycl. Brit. X. 352/1 (Gas-light) A series of purifiers. 1856 in Orr's Circle Sci.: Pract. Chem. 504 The gas is..made to pass through a set of vessels..the purifiers. These contain milk of lime, or lime that has been recently slaked. In the former case it is named a wet-lime purifier, and in the latter a dry. 1870 L. G. Binkly U.S. Patent 110,425 1/1 I..have invented a new and Improved Middlings-Purifier. 1884 Bath Herald 27 Dec. 6/4 [In a flour-mill] the most important machines are the ‘purifiers’. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xi. 147 Sulphuretted hydrogen is taken out by the purifiers, which contain trays spread with bog iron one. 1991 Mining Mag. Feb. 92/2 Equipment to improve the noxious gas and particulate content of diesel-engine exhaust fumes, such as catalytic purifiers and wash-boxes. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. Technol. 169/3 Ramelli also designs a system of vibrating screens, now known as a middlings purifier, to remove bran from the flour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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