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单词 purpurize
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purpurizev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin purpura , -ize suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin purpura purple (see purpure n.) + -ize suffix.With the use in quot. 1632 compare Italian purpureggiare (now usually porporeggiare) to become purple, to be similar to purple in colour (1426).
Obsolete.
transitive. To make purple. Usually in passive.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > turning purple > make purple [verb (transitive)]
purple?a1475
corkc1485
impurpure1554
bepurple1582
empurple1590
violet1623
purpurize1632
purpurate1642
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 53 A shadow, purpurized [It. purpureggiante] under the obscuritie of veiles.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 99 So being Scarlet purpurized, it might be termed by either, and both appellations.
1703 J. Elsum Art of Painting after Ital. Manner xliii. 127 The Sea itself, which is in some places Blewish,..and in others Blackish, Yellowish, or purpurized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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