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purare [CL in sense 2], ~ire 1 to free from dirt or impurities. b to refine (metal). 1405 in j libra antique cere ~ienda Ac. Churchw. Glast. I 138.  b 1296 de plumbo ~ato KR Ac 260/6 m. 1. 2 to free from moral corruption or from ceremonial pollution. nos Deus indurat, nos duris ducere curat; / nos dum pressurat, per pressuram sibi purat Garl. Mor. Scol. 236. 3 (debitum ~are) to determine the value of a debt. 1276 de claris debitis ‥ ~atis Cl 93 m. 8 (v. puramentum); 1419 major, aldermanni, et viginti quatuor homines civitatis, electi ad ~anda debita civitatis (Liber Albus) MGL I 657. 4 to grant in almoign or frank-almoign (freehold tenure, pura elemosina). s1273 iste confirmavit nobis ante mortem suam quicquid habuimus de feudo suo, et omnia ~avit adhuc in bona prosperitate constitutus Ann. Dunstable 256; confirmavit ‥ et ~avit nobis ingressum quem habuimus in terris Johannis de Eltesdone in Toterho, que fuerunt de feudo suo Ib. 257; 12 postea Jacobus de Byrkyng ‥ de tota parte sua monachos ~avit Cart. Wardon f. 82. 5 (p ppl.) pure or unmixed (in colour). 1314 in ‥ ij panys, vij furruris et dimidia de minuto vario, v capuciis ~atis (DL MinAc) EHR XLII 199; 1329 in empcione ‥ octo capusiorum de minuto vario, unius capucii ~ati ‥ trium supertunicarum de popir ExchScot 240; onerat se ‥ de iij supertunicis, viij capuciis de minuto vario, et j capucio ~ato, per empcionem Ib. 242; 1346 j capucium de xxxij ventribus miniver’ dimidiis ~atis (KR Ac) SelCKB VI xxiii.

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