Part 5650

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; <as>as, <ex>impure</ex> language or ideas</as>.</def> "<i>Impure</i> desires."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Language)</fld> <def>Not accurate; not idiomatic; <as>as, <ex>impure</ex> Latin; an <ex>impure</ex> style.</as></def>

<h1>Impure</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*pure"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To defile; to pollute.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Impurely</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*pure"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an impure manner.</def>

<h1>Impureness</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*pure"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Impurity</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*pu"ri*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. Impurities <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>impuritas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>impuret\'82</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.</def>

<blockquote>Profaneness, <b>impurity</b>, or scandal, is not wit. <i>Buckminster.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.</def>

<blockquote>Foul <b>impurities</b> reigned among the monkish clergy. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.</def>

<h1>Impurple</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*pur"ple</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Impurpled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Impurpling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>im-</ets> in + <ets>purple</ets>. Cf. <er>Empurple</er>.]</ety> <def>To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; <as>as, a field <ex>impurpled</ex> with blood</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Impurpled</b> with celestial roses, smiled. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The silken fleece <b>impurpled</b> for the loom. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inputability</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>In*put`a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being imputable; imputableness.</def>

<h1>Imputable</h1> <Xpage=740>

<hw>Im*put"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>imputable</ets>.]</ety>