Verb:

புனிதமா(க்)கு, சுத்தஞ்செய்,

purify's Usage Examples:

To this is united the noble ideal of the suffering servant, which serves both as a contribution to the great problem of suffering as purifying and vicarious and as the interpretation to the mind of the nation itself of that nation's true function in the future, a lesson which the actual future showed that Israel was slow to receive.

He earned the surname of "Pious" by banishing his sisters and others of immoral life from court; by attempting to reform and purify monastic life; and by showing great liberality to the church.

In order to obtain beatitude for her adoptive father, she resolved to become a river whose waters should purify from all sin.

Milk sugar, lactose, lactobiose, C12H22011, found in the milk of mammals, in the amniotic liquid of cows, and as a pathological secretion, is prepared by evaporating whey and purifying the sugar which separates by crystallization.

"There are, however, a good many instances recorded of what has been called a fumigatory use of frankincense in churches, by which it was sought to purify the air, in times of public sickness, or to dispel the foulness caused by large congregations, or poisonous gases arising from ill-constructed vaults under the church floor.

"Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art purified, thou wilt gain wisdom.

The alb is supposed to be symbolical of purity, and the priest, when putting it on, prays: "Make me white and purify my heart, 0 Lord," 'c.

A nearly saturated solution of sodium chloride is obtained by purifying natural or artificial brine, i.

It is also a traditional way of purifying and sweetening water, known to render even putrid water palatable.

Apollo, who has urged Orestes to parricide and has himself expiated the crime of slaying the dragon, is able to purify others in similar case.

Although, then, he felt that these practices were really corrupt, and even rejoiced that his own fall would tend to purify the courts from them, 2 he did not feel that he was guilty of perverting justice for the sake of reward.

The old stories of earlier days encircle places which, though denounced for their corruption, were not regarded as illegitimate, and in the form in which the dim traditions of the past are now preserved they reveal an attempt to purify popular belief and thought.

Synonyms:

amend, ameliorate, sublimate, distil, meliorate, refine, improve, distill, make pure, better, purge, rectify,

Antonyms:

rehabilitate, convict, keep down, falsify, worsen,