A world who would not purchase with a bruise? Milton. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged for it. Locke. Most of the old statues may be well supposed to have been cheaper to their first owners, than they are to a modern purchaser. Addison. Our thriving dean has purchased land; PURE, adj. PURELY, adv. Swift. French pur, pure; Belg. puer; Italian, Span. and Port. puro; >Lat. purus. Clean; clear; unmingled; free; incorrupt; chaste; mere: hence PURE'NESS, n. s. PURIFICATION, PURIFIER, PU'RIFY, v. a., & v. n. PURITY, n. s. morally or ritually clean; holy; guiltless: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding: purification, the act of cleansing or making pure purifier, he who performs it: to purify, to make clear, clean, guiltless, free from guilt or corruption: purity is synonymous with pureness. All of them were pure, and killed the passover. EXT'1. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Proverbs xx. 9. I will purely purge away thy dross, and take away Isaiah. all thy tin. As oft as I read those comedies, so oft doth sound in mine ear the pure fine talk of Rome. Ascham. Thou purest stone, whose pureness doth present My purest mind. Sidney. Could I come to her with any detection in my hand, I could drive her then from the ward of her purity, her reputation, and her marriage vow. Shakspeure. An essence eternal and spiritual, of absolute pureness and simplicity. Raleigh. If any bad blood should be left in the kingdom, an honourable foreign war will vent or purify it. Canaan, where there are no temptations, no danger of falling, but eternal purity and immortal joys secure our innocence and happiness for ever. Wake. Her guiltless glory just Britannia draws From pure religion, and impartial laws. Tickel. I converse in full freedom with men of both parties; and, if not in equal number, it is purely accidental, as having made acquaintance more under one ministry than another. Swift. Pure and mixt, when applied to bodies, are much akin to simple and compound; so a guinea is pure gold, if it has in it no alloy. Watts's Logick. From the body's purity, the mind Thomson. Hope, as an anchor firm and sure, holds fast The Christian vessel, and defies the blast. Hope! nothing else can nourish and secure His new-born virtues, and preserve him pure. Cowper. PUR'FILE, n. s. Fr. pour filee. A sort of ancient trimming for women's gowns. A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Spenser. Shakspeare. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks that blow, Flowers of more mingled bue Milton. Than her purfled scarf can shew. In velvet white as snow the troop was gowned, Their hoods and sleeves the same, and purfled o'er With diamonds. Dryden. PURFLEET, a village of England, in Essex, on the north bank of the Thames, famous for its extensive lime-works. It has also a large magazine of Gunpowder. It is four miles west of Grays, and nineteen east of London. PURGE, v. a., v. N., & n. s. PURGATION, n. s. vacuate the body; clear from guilt or charge: purgation is the act of purging in any way: purgative, having the power to purge or evacuate; ists suppose to be devoted in the other world to cathartic purgatory, a place which the Romancleansing men from impurities. I will purge out from among you the rebels. Ezek. xx. 38. The blood of Christ [shall] purge our conscience from dead works to serve God. Heb. ix. 14. Thou thy folk through pains of purgatory, Dost bear unto thy bliss. Spenser's Hymn on Love. If any man doubt, let him put me to my purgation. To the English court assemble now Shakspeare. From ev'ry region apes of idleness; Intends t'appear before the people, hoping Id. This shall make Our purpose necessary, and not envious; We shall be called purgers, not murtherers. Sir Philip Calthrop purged John Drakes, the shoe. maker of Norwich, of the proud humour. Id. Camden. Id. Marquis Dorset was hasting towards him, to purge himself of some accusation. Id. Henry VII. It is of good use in physick, if you can retain the purging virtue, and take away the unpleasant taste of the purger. Bacon. All that is filled, and all that which doth fill, All the round world to man is but a pill; In all it works not, but it is in all Poisonous, or purgative, or cordial. Simplicity and integrity in the inward parts may ourge out every prejudice and passion. Donne. Decay of Piety. A certain monk saw some souls roasted upon spits like pigs, and some devils basting them with scalding lard; but a while after they were carried to a cool place, and so proved purgatory. Bp. Taylor. pro In this age there may be as great instances duced of real charity as when men thought to get souls out of purgatory. Stillingfleet. Pills, not laxatives, I like; Woodward. He was no great friend to purging and clysters; he was for mixing aloes with all purges. Arbuthnot. Lenient purgatives evacuate the humours. Wiseman. PURGATION, in law, signifies the clearing a person's self of a crime of which he is suspected and accused before a judge. This purgation is either canonical or vulgar. Canonical purgation is prescribed by the canon law, and the form thereof in the spiritual court is usually thus: The person thus suspected takes his oath that he is innocent of the crime charged against him; and at the same time brings some of his neighbours to make oath that they believe he swears truly. Vulgar purgation was anciently by fire and water, or else by combat, and was practised here till abolished by our laws. PURGATION, in medicine, is an excretory motion arising from a quick and orderly contraction of the fleshy fibres of the stomach and intestines, whereby the chyle, corrupted humors, and excrements lodged therein, are protruded further, and at length quite excluded the body by stool. PURGATORY is a place in which the just, after death, are supposed by the Roman Catholics to expiate certain offences which do not merit eternal damnation. Broughton has endeavoured to prove that this notion has been held by Pagans, Jews, and Mahometans, as well as by Christians; and that in the days of the Maccabees the Jews believed that sin might be expiated by sacrifice, after the death of the sinner, cannot be questioned. Much abuse has been poured upon the church of Rome for her doctrine of purgatory, and many false representations have been made of the doctrine. The following view of it is taken from a work which is considered as a standard by the British Catholics: 1. Every sin, VOL. XVIII how slight soever, though no more than an idle word, as it is an offence to God, deserves punishment from him, and will be punished by him hereafter, if not cancelled by repentance here. 2. Such small sins do not deserve eternal punishment. 3. Few depart this life so pure as to be totally exempt from spots of this nature, and from every kind of debt due to God's justice. 4. Therefore few will escape without suffering something from his justice for such debts as they have carried with them out of this world; according to that rule of divine justice, by which he treats every soul hereafter according to its works, and according to the state in which he finds it in death. From these propositions, which the Papist considers as so many self-evident truths, he infers that there must be some third place of punishment; for, since the infinite which is not clean and pure from all sin both goodness of God can admit nothing into heaven great and small; and his infinite justice can permit none to receive the reward of bliss, who as yet are not out of debt, but have something in justice to suffer: there must of necessity be some place or state where souls departing this life, pardoned as to the eternal guilt or pain, yet obnoxious to some temporal penalty, or with the guilt of some venial faults, are purged and purified before their admittance into heaven. Such is the Popish doctrine of purgatory. PURIFICATION is a ceremony which consists in cleansing any thing from a supposed defilement. The Pagans, before they sacrificed, usually washed themselves in water; and they were particularly careful to wash their hands, because with these they were to touch the victims consecrated to the gods. They likewise washed the vessels with which they made their libations. The Mahometans also use purifications previous to prayer; which are of two kinds, bathing, or washing the face, hands, and feet. The first is required only in extraordinary cases, as after having lain with a woman, touched a dead body, &c. But where water cannot be had, or when it may be of prejudice to a person's health, they are allowed to use fine sand, or dust, by clapping their open hands on the sand, and passing them over the parts, in the same manner as if they were dipped in water. There were also many legal purifications among the Hebrews. When a woman was brought to bed of a male child, she was esteemed impure for forty days; and when of a female, for sixty: at the end of which time she carried a lamb to the door of the temple to be offered for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or turtle for a sin-offering; and after this ceremony she was declared pure. PURIM, or the Feast of Lots, a solemn festival of the Jews, instituted in memory of the deliverance they received, by means of Mordecai and Esther, from Haman's wicked attempt to destroy them. PURITAN, n. s. From pure. A name PURITAN ICAL, adj. originally given to the PURITANISM, 2.s. Dissenters of England, from the great professions of purity in their creed and practice: puritanical is relating to, or resembling, the puritans: puritanism, their religious systems or opinions. S TIANS. PURL, n. s. & v. a. Supposed by Minsheu to be contracted from purfle. An embroidered and puckered border: to decorate with embroidery. Himself came in next after a triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl. Sidney. The jagging of pinks is like the inequality of oak leaves; but they seldom have any small purls. Bacon. When was old Sherewood's head more quaintly curled, Or nature's c adle more enchased and purled? PURL, v. n. Swed. porla. To murmur.Lye. To murmur; to flow with a gentle noise. Tones are not so apt to procure sleep, as some other sounds; as the wind, the purling of water, and humming of bees. All fish from sea or shore My flow'ry theme, Bacon. Milton. In the purlieus of this forest stands A sheepcote, fenced about with olive trees. Shakspeare. Such civil matters fall within the purlieus of religion. L'Estrange. To understand all the purlieus of this place, and to illustrate this subject, I must venture myself into the haunts of beauty and gallantry. Spectator. He may be left to rot among thieves in some stinking jail, merely for mistaking the purlieus of the laws. Swift. PURLIEU, in law, signifies all that ground near any forest which, being made forest by king Henry II. Richard I. and king John, was afterwards by perambulations and grants of Henry III. severed again from the same, and made purlieu; that is to say, pure and free from the laws of the forest. The word is derived from the French pur, pure, and lieu, place. PURNEAH, a district forming the north-west division of Bengal. It is extremely fertile and well watered, producing remarkably fine cattle. It exports a great quantity of clarified butter, and is also celebrated for its sugar and indigo. The cattle are much used in the army, and for agricultural purposes: the northern mountains also produce valuable timber, which is cut in the hot weather, and afterwards floated down the rivers. It is supposed to contain nearly 1,500,000 of inhabitants, about one-third of whom are Mahometans. In 1722 the nabob Sief Khan, a friend of Cooly Jaffier Khan, was governor of Purneah, and had permission to conquer from the bordering rajahs as much territory as he could, which was to be exempt from any increase of revenue to the state. He made therefore very considerable additions to the district; and, while other parts of Bengal were overrun by the Mahrattas, Purneah continued in a state of Khadem Hussein, then in possession of this distranquillity and prosperity. In May 1760 trict, endeavoured to cut off a British detachment under the command of captain Knox, but after an engagement of six hours was repulsed. On the 25th of June he again encountered the British forces, and was defeated. At the peace this chief was compelled to retire to Oude, from which period Purneah has became a district of Bengal. Its principal towns are Purneah and Tajepore, its former capital was Deocote. PURNEAH, the capital of the above district, is pleasantly situated on the eastern bank of the Seraw, and carries on a considerable trade. It is the residence of a judge, collector, &c. Long. 88° 23′ E., lat. 25° 45′ N. PUR'PARTY, n. s. Share; part in division. French pour and parti. Each of the coparceners had an entire county allotted for her purparty. Davies on Ireland. PURPLE, v. a., n. s. & adj. Fr. pourpre; Lat. purpureus. Red tinctured with blue: a color among the ancients considered as the noblest, and as the regal color: to make purple : the color; a purple dress. The poop was beaten gold, Shakspeare. Donne. A small oval plate, cut off a flinty pebble, and polished, is prettily variegated with a pale grey, blue, yellow, and purple. Woodward. Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers. Fenton. Not with more glories in the ethereal plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main. Their mangled limbs Crashi Pope. at once, death dyes the purple seas With gore. Thomson's Summer. PURPLE. See COLOR-MAKING, and DYEING. PUR'PORT, n. s. & v. a. Fr. pourporte; PURPOSE, n. s., v. a. & v. n. of Lat. pro and PURPOSELY, adv. porto. Design; tendency of a writing or discourse: to intend: purpose, the intention, design, or thing, intended; effect; consequence; instance: to purpose as a verb active is, to intend; design: as a verb neuter to have a design: purposely, by design. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Psalm xvii. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth. Isaiah. What David did purpose, it was the pleasure of God that Solomon his son should perform. Hooker. Being the instrument which God hath purposely framed, thereby to work the knowledge of salvation in the hearts of men, what cause is there wherefore it should not be acknowledged a most apt mean? Id. He quit the house of purpose, that their punish ment Might have the freer course. Shakspeare. King Lear. Change this purpose, Which being so horrible, so bloody, must It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot, To curb the nobility. Id. Coriolanus. There was an article against the reception of the rebels, purporting that if any such rebel should be required of the prince confederate, that the prince confederate should command him to avoid the country. Bacon's Henry VII. The ground will be like a wood, which keepeth out the sun, and so continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year. Bacon. The first purpose to sin opens the gates to Satan. Bp. Hall. That kind of certainty which doth not admit of any doubt, may serve us as well to all intents and purposes as that which is infallible. Wilkins. And I persuade me God hath not permitted His strength again to grow, were not his purpose To use him farther yet. Milton's Agonistes. The whole included race his purposed prey. Milton. Hudibras. Oaths were not purposed more than law, To keep the good and just in awe, But to confine the bad and sinful, Like moral cattle in a pinfold. Their design is a war, whenever they can open it with a prospect of succeeding to purpose. Temple. They, who are desirous of a name in painting, should read and make observations of such things as they find for their purpose. Dryden's Dufresnoy. 'Tis common for double-dealers to be taken in their own snares, as for the purpose in the matter of L'Estrange. power. Such first principles will serve us to very little purpose, and we shall be as much at a loss with, as without them, if they may, by any human power, such as is the will of our teachers, or opinions of our Locke. companions, be altered or lost in us. That Plato intended nothing less is evident from the whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. He travelled the world, on purpose to converse with the most learned men. Guardian St. Austin hath laid down a rule to this very purpose. Burnet. They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter, which little purported, but words Ranked in right learned phrase. Rowe. I have purposely avoided to speak any thing concerning the treatment due to such persons. Addison. Where men err against this method, it is usually on purpose, and to shew their learning. Swift. I do this on purpose to give you a more sensible impression of the imperfection of your knowledge. Watts. What the Romans have done is not worth notice, having had little occasion to make use of this art, and what they have of it to purpose being borrowed from Aristotle. Baker. PURPRISE, n. s. Old Fr. pourpris; law Lat. purprisum, prensus. A close or enclosure; the whole compass of a manor. tion. The place of justice is hallowed; and therefore not only the bench but the foot-pace and precincts, and purprise ought to be preserved without corrupBacon's Essays. PURPURA, in natural history. See MUREX. PURPURIC ACID, in chemistry, acidum purpuricum: so called from its fine red color. The excrements of the serpent boa constrictor consist of pure lithic acid. Dr. Prout found that on digesting this substance thus obtained, or from urinary calculi, in dilute nitric acid, an effervescence takes place, and the lithic acid is dissolved, forming a beautiful purple liquid. The excess of nitric acid being neutralised with ammonia, and the whole concentrated by slow evaporation, the color of the solution becomes of a deeper purple; and dark red granular crystals, sometimes of a greenish hue externally, soon begin to separate in abundance. These crystals are a compound of ammonia with the acid principle in question. The ammonia was displaced by digesting the salt in a solution of caustic potassa, till the red color entirely disappeared. This alkaline solution was then gradually dropped into dilute sulphuric acid, which, uniting with the potassa, left the acid principle in a state of purity. This acid principle is likewise produced from lithic acid by chlorine, and also, but with more difficulty, by iodine. Dr. Prout, the discoverer of this new acid, has, at the suggestion of Dr. Wollaston, called it purpuric acid, because its saline compounds have for the most part a red or purple color. This acid, as obtained by the preceding process, usually exists in the form of a very fine powder, of a slightly yellowish or cream color; and when examined with a magnifier, especially under water, appears to possess a pearly lustre. It has no smell, nor taste. Its specific gravity is considerably above water. It is scarcely soluble in water. One-tenth of a grain, boiled for a considerable time in 1000 grains of water, was not entirely dissolved. The water, however, assumed a purple tint, probably, Dr. Prout thinks, from the formation of a little purpurate of ammonia. Purpuric acid is insoluble in alcohol and ether. The mineral acids dissolve it only when they are concentrated. PURR, v. a. Teut. murren. To murmur as a cat or leopard; both words probably from the sound. Tray fast asleep, and puss a purring, All silent, not a murmur stirring. Fire Side. PURRURY, a town and district of the province of Gundwanah and Hindostan, the residence of a Burdy chief, who is a tributary of Singrowla rajah. The town is large, but the country poor, and largely covered with forests. PURSE, n. s. & v. a. PURSE'NET, PURSE PROUD, adj. Fr. bourse; Italian borsa; barb. Lat bursa; Wel. purs. A small A PURSER is an officer aboard a man of war, who receives her victuals from the victualler, sees that it be well stowed, and keeps an account of what he every day delivers to the steward. He also keeps a list of the ship's company, and sets down exactly the day of each man's admission, in order to regulate the quantity of provisions to be delivered out, and that the paymaster or treasurer of the navy may issue out the disbursements, and pay off the men, according to his men. The purser is charged with the clothes and effects of persons who die on board; and he sells the same before the mast to the rest of the crew, and is obliged to give a satisfactory account of the same to the executors or administrators of the deceased. It is his duty also to keep a regular slop-book, wherein he is to make distinct and separate entries of the particulars and value of the slop-clothes, bedding, dead men's clothes, &c., issued or supplied to the ship's company. PUR'SLAIN, n. s. Lat. portulaca. A plant. The medicaments, proper to diminish the milk, are lettuce, purslain, and endive. Wiseman's Surgery. PURSUE', v. n. & v. a. PURSUABLE, PURSUANT, PURSU'ER, n. s. PURSUIT. Fr. poursuivre; Lat. prosequor. To follow; chase; follow hostilely; imitate; copy: as a verb active, proceed to go on: pursuable is that may be pursued: pursuant, done in consequence or prosecution of (a legal term): pursuer, he or she who follows, particularly with hostility: pursuit, the act of following; prosecution; endeavour; attempt made. |