Pure

a. [compar. PURER; superl. PUREST.] [Lat. purus, Sp., Pg., & It. puro, Pr. & Fr. pur. A-S. pur.] 1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as, pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver or gold. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. Watts. 2. Free from that which contaminates, defiles, or blemishes;—used in figurative senses; as, (a.) Free from moral defilement or guilt; innocent; hence, guileless; chaste;—applied to persons. Keep thyself pure. 1 Tim. v. 22. (b.) Free from that which is foreign; especially, free from that which harms, vitiates, or pollutes; unadulterated; genuine; real; perfect;—applied to things and actions. “Pure religion and impartial laws.” Tickell. “The pure, fine talk of Rome.” Ascham. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. Macaulay. 3. Unconnected with any thing else; mere; absolute; as, a pure villain; pure compassion; pure good nature. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. “The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.” Fuller.—Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, in contradistinction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. Math. Dict.—Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone. Syn.—Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy.