Purificatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Purificative.
  • noun. Same as purificator.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Serving or tending to purify; purificative.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That purifies; purificative
  • Word Usage
    "In other processes which are usually called purificatory, magic seems to survive: the word _februum_, from which comes the name of our second month, meant an object with magical potency, such as water, fire, sulphur, laurel, wool, or the strips of the victims sacrificed at the"
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