4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table

before the Lord.

Lev. xxiv. 6.

5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some

vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were

pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue,

under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure

mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles

of the science, or contradistinction to applied mathematics, which

treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of

other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See

Mathematics. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- Pure villenage (Feudal

Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord.

Blackstone.

Syn. -- Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated;

uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair;

unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled;

immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy.

Pured (?), a. Purified; refined. [Obs.] "Bread of pured wheat." "Pured

gold." Chaucer.

||Pu`rÈe" (?), n. [F.] A dish made by boiling any article of food to a

||pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purÈe of fish, or of

||potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

Pure"ly (?), adv. 1. In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

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