Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Purgative (n.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.
(2) - Purgative (a.) Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

(1) - Purgatory (n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
(2) - Purgatory (a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

(1) - Purge (v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
(2) - Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.
(3) - Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
(4) - Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification.
(5) - Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
(6) - Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
(7) - Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
(8) - Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
(9) - Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
(10) - Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
(11) - Purge (v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

(1) - Purger (n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.

(1) - Purification (n.) A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
(2) - Purification (n.) The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
(3) - Purification (n.) The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.