To purify; cleanse; refine.
Specifically In tanning, to cleanse with a bate of dog's dung.
Free from extraneous matter; separate from matter of another kind; free from mixture; unmixed; clear; especially, free from matter that impairs or pollutes: Said of physical substances.
Bare; mere; sheer; absolute; very: as, it was done out of pure spite; a pure villain.
Sole; only.
Whole; thorough; complete.
Fine; nice.
Figuratively, free from mixture with things of another kind; homogeneous.
Free from mixture with that which contaminates, stains, defiles, or blemishes.
Ritually or ceremonially clean; unpolluted.
Free from that which vitiates, pollutes, or degrades; unadulterated; genuine; stainless; sincere: said of thoughts, actions, motives, etc.
In music: Of intervals, intonation, and harmony, mathematically correct or perfect: opposed to tempered.
Of tones, without discordant quality.
Of style of composition or of a particular work, correct; regular; finished.
In metaphysics, of the nature of form; unmateriate; in the Kantian terminology, not depending on experience; non-sensuous.
Logic based solely on a priori principles; a canon of the understanding and of the reason in reference to the formal element.
Synonyms Uncorrupted, incorrupt, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, unstained, clean, fair, unspotted, unpolluted, undefiled, immaculate, guiltless, holy.
noun.
Purity.
noun.
In tanning, a bate of dog's dung, used for counteracting the action of the lime on the skins in the process of unhairing.
In biology, having germ-cells of only one kind and like those of a parent. See the extract.
Quite; very; absolutely; perfectly.