单词 | repurify |
释义 | repurifyv. transitive. To purify again. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > remove impurities from [verb (transitive)] > again repurge?1536 repurea1542 repurify1575 resublime1651 1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 65 A puddle that can not eftsoones be repurifyed. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vi. 49 Let's to the river, and repurify Thy wedding garments. 1699 tr. H. de Blancourt Art of Glass cxi. 170 After you have dried it, put it again into the Pot in the same Oven, there to melt and repurifie for fifteen Days. a1737 J. Hutchinson Use of Reason Recovered Part II (1749) IX. 103 If they erred in any Point..they were to be repurified by Water, by Sacrifice, by Blood. ?1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ Eccentricities J. Edwin II. 343 Dramatic poetry seems now vitiated beyond all possibility of its being repurified. 1868 Ladies' Repository Nov. 413/2 There can be no pure blood in one's veins if it is not repurified continually by the action of fresh air upon it. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. July 111 Harriet Shelley put a stain upon her husband's honor, and..that was what stung him into repurifying himself by deserting her and his child. 1936 W. F. Taylor Hist. Amer. Lett. i. iii. 16 He called a reforming synod to re-purify the backslidden churches. 1967 I. H. Bartlett Amer. Mind Mid-19th Cent. iv. 76 Lincoln believed that the American robe was trailing in the dust and he sought to repurify it in the spirit of the Revolution. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 28 June a9 Now, the holy men may have to go back and have another ceremony to repurify the site and undo the influences of the protester's ritual, Mr. Wesley said. Derivatives reˈpurified adj. ΚΠ 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H4 Some superficial slime of poison hast thou driueld from thy pen..which one pen ful of repurified inke will excessiuelie wash out. 1640–4 J. Taylor Mercurius Brittanicus 3 You bragge what a brave Cornelius Burgesse you have, he is a very wholsome Purified and Repurified man. 1862 J. Cumming Millennial Rest xxvii. 355 The future will be..a regenerated earth, a repurified atmosphere, a reconsecrated heavens. 1956 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 59 13/1 Details of various absorbing materials were recorded on no-screen x-ray film using the ionizing radiations from a re-purified uranium oxide. 1994 J. E. Wills Mountain of Fame xii. 186 A repurified true yin and true yang met within the body to form an incorruptible, immortal embryo. reˈpurifying adj. ΚΠ 1630 J. Taylor Praise Cleane Linnen Ded., in Wks. ii. 164 The Most Mondifying, Clarifying, Purifying and Repurifying, Cleanser. 2007 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 10 Nov. Singapore has a repurifying plant that is now a tourist attraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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