Word Finder - purged

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To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.

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To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds

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To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

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To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.

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To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.

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To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation

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To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).

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To become pure, as by clarification.

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To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

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To trim, dress or prune.

The entire East Coast had to be purged and redeveloped.

Some of them were sabered and the Kremlin was purged of their presence.

The body of the state was now purged of all elements which would not blindly carry out the policy of the Committee.

On other estates the second sugars, or sugars produced from boiling molasses alone, are not purged to dryness, but when sufficiently separated from their mother-liquor are mixed with the defecated juice, thereby increasing its saccharine richness, and after being converted into syrup in the usual manner are treated in the vacuum pan as first sugars, which in fact they really are.

The clear juice thus obtained is evaporated in a multiple-effect evaporator and crystallized in a vacuum pan, and the sugar is purged in centrifugals.

In 1610 appeared his History of Ecclesiastical Benefices, " in which," says Ricci, "he purged the church of the defilement introduced by spurious decretals."

Following decontamination, the microbiological safety cabinet must be purged of all residual formaldehyde.

I've outlived two advisors and three mates…I purged the kingdoms to the east of their evil ways.

So Vespasian obtained possession of Palestine - the country which Nero had given him - and for a time it was purged of revolutionaries.

Having slain by accident the Corinthian hero Bellerus (or, according to others, his own brother) he fled to Tiryns, where his kinsman Proetus, king of Argos, received him hospitably and purged him of his guilt.

But for all practical purposes the system of claying sugar is a thing of the past, and the bulk of the sugar of commerce is now purged in centrifugals, as indeed it has been for many years.

On the entry of the army into London in 1648, Deane superintended the seizure of treasure at the Guildhall and Weavers' Hall the day after Pride "purged" the House of Commons, and accompanied Cromwell to the consultations as to the "settlement of the Kingdom" with Lenthall and Sir Thomas Widdrington, the keeper of the great seal.

Man's utter incapacity to do anything to please God, and his utter personal dependence on God's grace seemed to render the whole system of the Church well-nigh gratuitous even if it were purged of all the " sophistry " which to Luther seemed to bury out of sight all that was essential in religion.

Guards purged the Convention of the Girondists.

This in the case of most writings is fairly readable, because it has been purged by the continuous emendation of scholars during several centuries.

Thus they were thrown back on the limits of human knowledge prescribed by Kant, but purged of the unknown thing in itself by Fichte.

When in 1861 the Southern states seceded from the Union and took up arms against it, he saw clearly that slavery would perish in the struggle, that the constitution would be purged of its pro-slavery clauses, and that the Union henceforth would rest upon the sure foundations of libert y, justice and equality to all men.

It was represented to the emperor, who was still pursued by the desire to bring back the schismatics, that a great step would have been taken towards reconciliation if a condemnation of these teachers, or rather of such of their books as were complained of, could be brought about, since then the Chalcedonian party would be purged from any appearance of sympathy with the errors of Nestorius.

At Dunbar Leslie held Cromwell in the hollow of his hand, but his army had been repeatedly " purged " of all Royalist men of the sword by the preachers; they are said, and Cromwell believed it, to have constrained Leslie to leave his impregnable position and attack on the lower levels.

For forty years she was abbess at St Damian's, and the great endeavour of her life was that the rule of the nuns should be purged of the foreign elements that had been introduced, and should become wholly conformable to St Francis's spirit.

The third stage in Sir George Grey's scheme contemplated the enforced emigration of released convicts, whom the discipline of separation and public works was supposed to have purged and purified, and who would have better hopes of entering on a new career of honest industry in a new country than when thrown back among vicious associations at home.

On the whole, however, Aristotle, Bacon and Mill, purged from their errors, form one empirical school, gradually growing by adapting itself to the advance of science; a school in which Aristotle was most influenced by Greek deductive Mathematics, Bacon by the rise of empirical physics at the Renaissance, and Mill by the Newtonian combination of empirical facts and mathematical principles in the Principia.

They are deposited in a temple, in charge of a small sacred college; new deities and rites are introduced under their sanction; when they are accidentally destroyed, envoys are sent to the East and fresh collections are made; these are in their turn purged, the false are discarded and the true reverently preserved.

It was fought on a register purged of the rebel voters, many of whom, besides being disfranchised, were in prison.

Purged of elements obviously heathen, the Ka`ba became the holiest site, and the pilgrimage the most sacred ritual observance of Mahommedanism, drawing worshippers from so wide a circle that the confluence of the petty traders of the desert was no longer the main feature of the holy season.

The idea of transferring sin into another man or into an animal, and so getting it purged through him or it, was widespread in the age of Paul and long afterwards.

Instead of allowing the income tax to expire, he induced parliament to continue it for a further period, and with the resources which were thus placed at his disposal he purged the tariff of various small duties which produced little revenue, and had been imposed for purposes of protection.

The councils were purged, the elections in forty-nine departments were cancelled, and many deputies and other men of note were arrested.

Nay, further, he required that the Christian " love to God " should be regarded as pure only if purged from the self-regarding desire of the happiness which God gives.

Merciless, cutthroat, aggressive, he purged the oldest demons from the demon ranks.

I've outlived two advisors and three mates…I purged the kingdoms to the east of their evil ways.

Its conservative and libertarian elements have already been purged by time and active malevolence to the outer limits of influence.

The state apparatus has been thoroughly purged of all Fascist elements.

Data no longer required for the legitimate purposes of the CWU will be regularly purged.

I feel like I have finally purged myself of the repetitive thoughts that have been torturing me for the last year.

On the basis of this, " the worshipers, once purged, have no more conscience of sins.

Before entering into glory man must be completely purged of sin by means of a spiritual purification of his soul.

It also allows the rapid resumption of filtration once the settlement chambers have been purged.

But, as the Greek tragedians knew, pity and fear must be purged.

The parliament, however, continued to negotiate, and accordingly Charles was removed by the army to Hurst Castle on the 1st of December, the troops occupied London on the 2nd; while on the 6th and 7th Colonel Pride "purged" the House of Commons of the Presbyterians.

The ghastly roll of infantile mortality was quickly purged of its darkest features (Ballard and others); aided by bacteriology, sanitary measures attained some considerable degree of exactness; public medicine gained such an ascendancy that special training and diplomas were offered at universities; and in 1875 a consolidated act was passed for the United Kingdom establishing medical officers of health, and responsible lay sanitary authorities, with no inconsiderable powers of enforcing the means of public health in rural, urban, port and other jurisdictions, with summary methods of procedure.

The opposition collapsed; the recalcitrant provincial states were purged; and the leaders of the party of state rights - the advocate himself, Hugo de Groot (see GROTIUs), pensionary of Rotterdam, and Hoogerbeets, pensionary of Leiden, were arrested and thrown into prison.

Two of the springs have been identified with some probability - that of St Theodore with the Oedipodea, in which Oedipus is said to have purged himself from the pollution of homicide, and the Paraporti with the dragon-guarded fountain of Ares (see Cadmus).

On the basis of this, the worshipers, once purged, have no more conscience of sins.

Many of these accounts will be extinct and will be purged when new accounts are created under the new domain.

Registered consumer proposals are purged three years from the date that they were paid.

Judgments are purged six years from the date they were filed and bankruptcies are purged six years from the discharge date.

An exception to the six-year purge date is any P.E.I. public records, which are purged from the system within seven to ten years.

Even though some of these apps had been previously approved by Apple for publishing and distribution through the App Store, many were purged from the online marketplace due to an elevated level of sexual or suggestive content.

There are some apps that are just as "tame" as the Sports Illustrated one, containing images of women in bikinis and posing in provocative ways, but they have been purged from the App Store as well.