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▪ I. † deˈpurate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. med.L. dēpūrāt-us, pa. pple. of dēpūrāre (see next): in F. dépuré.]
Purified, cleansed, refined, clarified.
1657W. Coles Adam in Eden clxv, The said depurate juice. 1661Glanvill Van. of Dogm. xi. (R.), A material attribute, and incompatible with so depurate a nature. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. ii. 428 Sulfur refin'd and depurate.
▪ II. depurate, v.|dɪˈpjʊəreɪt, ˈdɛpjʊreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. dēpūrāre, f. de- I. 3 + pūrāre to purify, pūrus pure. Cf. F. dépurer (13th c. in Hatzf.), Pr. and Sp. depurar, It. depurare.]
1. trans. To free from impurities, purify, cleanse.
1620Venner Via Recta Introd. 8 It [water] is the better depurated with the morning Sunne, and pure orientall Windes. 1685Boyle Effects Motion Suppl. 156 Let the Gums be depurated with the Vinegar of Squills. 1751Bayly in Phil. Trans. XLVII. 29 Sufficient to depurate the blood. 1800Howard ibid. XC. 218 It had been depurated from excess of alkali. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. iii. 78 The luxuriant Flora of the Coal period—which served to depurate the atmosphere of its Carbonic Acid.
fig.1681Glanvill Sadducismus 148 Their Imagination is not sufficiently defecated and depurated from the filth..of Corporeity. 1780Burke Speech at Bristol Wks. 1842 I. 263 It was long before the spirit of true piety..could be depurated from the dregs and feculence of the contention. 1832Fraser's Mag. VI. 602 Will you not feel your being depurated of its accustomed weaknesses?
2. intr. (for refl.) To become free from impurities.
1767Monro in Phil. Trans. LVII. 407 After it had stood for a month to depurate, it was again filtered.
Hence depurated ppl. a., depurating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋124 The depurated bloud from the vena cava. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. I. 179 Sulphur is also found..but the melting and depurating of it is too chargeable. 1781Phil. Trans. LXXI. 41 The quantity of depurated salt they will afford. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Spectre of Tapp., They had come under the valet's depurating hand. 1844–57G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 5) 63 The depurating functions of [the] kidneys. |