To make ceremonially or sanitarily clean. ceremonially, as in the Mosaic law.

transitive. To make holy; to sanctify, purify.

transitive. To cleanse, make clean (literal and figurative).

By-form of circumcise, v.

figurative. Chiefly as a Hebraism, in reference to the purification typified by the rite; partly, with the notion of castration.

transitive. To make ceremonially or ritually pure or clean; (formerly) spec. †to church (a woman) after childbirth (obsolete).

intransitive. To come out of a thing or place; to go forth.

Chiefly in the Old Testament: To free from ceremonial impurity.

To cleanse, purify (a person, a city) from guilt or pollution by religious ceremonies. Occasionally Const. of. Obsolete.

transitive. In extended use. To purify or absolve of past wrongdoings, esp. by ceremonial expiation or the performance of religious rites. rare.

transitive. To purify; = lustrate, v.1 1.

transitive. To purify by a propitiatory offering; to cleanse by (or as if by) lustration; gen. to purify.

transitive. To purify (by some ceremony).