Pur"po*sive (?), a. Having or indicating purpose or design. "Purposive
characters." Bastian.
Purposive modification of structure in a bone.
Owen.
It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive
than these.
Huxley.
Pur"pre (?), n. & a. Purple. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pur*pres"ture (?), n. [Probably corrupted (see Prest) fr. OF.
pourprisure, fr. pourprendre: cf. LL. purprestura. Cf. Purprise.] (Law)
Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment
upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as
highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]
Pur"prise (?), n. [OF. pourpris,fr. pourprendre to take away entirely;
pour for + prendre to take.] A close or inclosure; the compass of a
manor. Bacon.
||Pur"pu*ra (?), n. [L., purple, purple fish: cf. F. purpura. See
||Purple.] 1. (Med.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin
||from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the
||limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.
2. (Zoˆl.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and
thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
Pur"pu*rate (?), a. Of or pertaining to purpura.
Pur"pu*rate, n. (Chem.) A salt of purpuric acid.
Pur"pure (?), n. [L. purpura purple. See Purple.] (Her.) Purple, --
represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top
to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter
base).
Pur*pu"re*al (?), a. Of a purple color; purple.
Pur*pu"re*o- (?). A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red
color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant
purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the
roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.
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