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purificare [CL] 1 to free from impurity, dirt, or extraneous matter, to purify; b (spec. in refining of metal). defecatum vinum, ~atum GlC D 79.  b non solum a rubigine ferrum, et argentum a scoria purgat, sed et aurum, ut ampliori fulgore rutilet, igne ~at tribulationis J. Furness Walth. 81; a1288 ciner’ plumbi purific’ Fabr. Exon. 2; provide etiam ut quinta vel sexta pars metalli sit stannum ~atum a plumbo Odington 85; 1409 pro labore suo in dictis vj blomes faciendis et ~andis Ac. Forge Durh. 520. 2 to cleanse (a woman) ceremonially after childbirth, to ‘church’ (also absol.). b (pr. ppl. as sb. m. or f.) (post-partum purifying, as name of) the Feast of the Purification, Candlemas. de matrona ~anda que ad secundum offertorium misse Pro Fidelibus obtulit ‥ non ad primum Gir. GE I 49. 131; 1240 per eundem capellanum ibidem ~entur uxores Ch. Sal. 253; s1239 convenerunt nobiles domine Londonias, ut reginam ~atam ad monasterium, ut moris est, ituram comitarentur M. Par. Maj. III 566; quod diu jam decubuerat in puerperio, et tempus esset ~andi Silgrave 79.  b per mare dat treugam rex his ad Purificantem Elmh. Metr. Hen. V 946. 3 to free from moral corruption, or to render ceremonially pure, to purify; b (w. abstr. subj.). utrumque ‥ lavat, purgat, ~at; illud carnem, hoc mentem Lanfr. Corp. & Sang. 425A; excoctus digne, dum purificatur in igne, / purior extractus, resplenduit illius actus Greg. Eli. Æthelwold 5. 8; pro lege in templo se ~avit et totondit H. Bos. Thom. II 9; Ypolitus per aquam babtismi purificatur Nig. Laur. 470; purificare sinitur, / peccati nescia, / legique subicitur, / set non obnoxia Ledrede Carm. 32. 29; quem sublimabit Deus ipsum purificabit (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 180; 1438 ut ‥ omnia vite proprie integritate ~et Bekynton I 2.  b neque ‥ inmunditia ejus polluit mundam, sed puritas mundi ~avit inmundam Alcuin Ep. 245 p. 394. 4 (leg.) to clear of culpability. liceat accusato ‥ testes producere ad ~andum se Egb. Dial. 405. 5 to remove (from an account). 1308 de quibus [carectis] j ~ata. et remanet j carecta ferro ligata Crawley 268.

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