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unˈpurged, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not cleansed or freed from baser elements or admixture.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 268 Ginger Mechino..is sould vnclensed or vnpurged. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 266 The Rhewmy, and vnpurged Ayre. a1661B. Holyday Persius (1673) 306 This from th' unpurged earth made us desire To strain out veins of gold by purging fire. 1667Milton P.L. v. 419 Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not yet into her substance turn'd. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. II. iv. x. 61 Instruments sweeter than the unpurged ear ever heard. 1874Farrar Christ I. 118 Which to the dull unpurged ear was but inarticulate thunder.
2. Not freed or cleared from wrong-doing, accusation, etc.
1530Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. viii. f 4 b, That the soule vnpurged maye do some meane & lowe seruyce to god in heuen. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 70/1 The prisoner deceased in the castell, and because he stood vnpurged, long he laie vnburied. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. 11 So long as I should suffer my honest estimation to lye unpurg'd from these insolent suspicions. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xix. 250 Hell is wide open..to euery unpurged person. 1738Wesley Ps. vi. iii, Who dies unpurg'd for ever dies.
3. Not removed or cleared away.
a1617Hieron Wks. (1620) II. 415 That there is some secret euill in vs, which is vnpurged and vnreformed. 1682J. Flavel Fear 39 The unpurged relicts of unbelief. 1835T. Mitchell Acharn. of Aristoph. 874 A man who had yet the unpurged pollution of a mother's blood upon him. 1884Chr. Commw. 14 Feb. 415/2 The Church,..corrupted by the unpurged influences of the great Apostacy. |