purify
verb (used with object)
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
purificatory
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a word derived from
purify.
Example Sentences
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The purificatory power of fire was, doubtless, a fact of early observation.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Then the body was carried to a certain spot where all the people stood upon it as a purificatory ceremony.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Prior to this ceremony he went through a special purificatory rite, immersing himself in the sea, an act to which the Greeks attributed great virtue.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright
Against these demons the sufferer seeks protection by means of formulas, the utterance of which is invested with peculiar power, and again by means of certain rites of an expiatory or purificatory character.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
I am inclined to think that this rite is a purificatory one, as the name of it indicates.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
