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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Pure \Pure\, a. [Compar. Purer; superl. Purest.] [OE. pur,
     F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to
     clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider,
     think, Skr. p? to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. Putative.]
     1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free
        from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed;
        as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
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              The pure fetters on his shins great.  --Chaucer.
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              A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. --I.
                                                    Watts.
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     2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent;
        guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. ``Keep thyself
        pure.'' --1 Tim. v. 22.
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              Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a
              pure heart, and of a good conscience. --1 Tim. i. 5.
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     3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or
        pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and
        actions. ``Pure religion and impartial laws.'' --Tickell.
        ``The pure, fine talk of Rome.'' --Ascham.
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              Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure
              as any that ancient or modern history records.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
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              Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon
              the pure table before the Lord.       --Lev. xxiv.
                                                    6.
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     5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of
        some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
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     Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. ``The
        inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.'' --Fuller.
  
     Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene.
        
  
     Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry.
  
     Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats
        of the principles of the science, or 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. See
        Mathematics. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )
  
     Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain
        services at the will of the lord. --Blackstone.
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     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.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Pure \Pure\, a. [Compar. Purer; superl. Purest.] [OE. pur,
     F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to
     clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider,
     think, Skr. p? to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. Putative.]
     1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free
        from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed;
        as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
  
              The pure fetters on his shins great.  --Chaucer.
  
              A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. --I.
                                                    Watts.
  
     2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent;
        guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. ``Keep thyself
        pure.'' --1 Tim. v. 22.
  
              Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a
              pure heart, and of a good conscience. --1 Tim. i. 5.
  
     3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or
        pollutes; 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.
  
     4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
  
              Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon
              the pure table before the Lord.       --Lev. xxiv.
                                                    6.
  
     5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of
        some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  
     Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. ``The
        inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.'' --Fuller.
  
     Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene.
        
  
     Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry.
  
     Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats
        of the principles of the science, or 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. See
        Mathematics. --Davies & Peck (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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  pure
       adj 1: free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and
              water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the
              violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones" [ant: impure]
       2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
          intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
          consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
          negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
          sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
          villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a),
           consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a),
           perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a),
           thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]
       3: concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed
          to applied; "pure science"
       4: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white
          or gray or black [syn: saturated] [ant: unsaturated]
       5: free from discordant qualities
       6: used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I
          felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as
          the driven snow" [ant: impure]
       7: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty";
          "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their
          women must be pure and virginal" [syn: vestal, virgin,
           virginal, virtuous]
       8: not mixed; "pure oxygen" [syn: unmixed, undiluted]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     Ιταλικά adv.
     επίσης

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     Danish a.
     1 complete
     2 (adverbial) completely
     Danish alt.
     puree
     Danish n.
     puree
     Danish a.
     1 (inflection of da pur  def)
     2 (plural of da pur)
     Esperanto adv.
     purely
     French a.
     (inflection of fr pur  f s)
     Italian a.
     (adj form of it puro  f p)
     Italian adv.
     1 too, also, as well
     2 well, surely
     3 please, by all means
     4 if you like; if you want (etc.)
     Italian conj.
     1 even though, even if, although
     2 nevertheless
     Middle English a.
     1 (l en pure), unadulterated,  undiluted, untarnished
     2 entire, total, all
     3 perfect, wonderful, unflawed
     4 morally clean, (l en pure), or upstanding
     5 chaste
     6 true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
     7 clear, obvious, simple
     Norwegian Nynorsk n.
     (alt sp nocap=1 nn puré)
     Norwegian Nynorsk a.
     1 (infl of nn pur  def s)
     2 (infl of nn pur  p)
     Swedish a.
     (adj form of sv pur  def natm s)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     a.
     1 Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
     2 (senseid en free of foreign material or pollutants)Free of foreign
  material or pollutants.
     3 Free of immoral behavior or quality; clean.
     4 mere; that and that only.
     5 (lb en of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of
  serving another branch of science.
     adv.
     (lb en Liverpool Scottish) to a great extent or degree; extremely;
  exceedingly.
     n.
     One who, or that which, is pure.
     vb.
     1 (lb en golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
     2 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
     n.
     (alternative form of en puer  dung (e.g. of dogs))

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     Danish a.
     1 complete
     2 (adverbial) completely
     Danish alt.
     puree
     Danish n.
     puree
     Danish a.
     1 (inflection of da pur  def)
     2 (plural of da pur)
     Esperanto adv.
     purely
     French a.
     (inflection of fr pur  f s)
     Italian a.
     (adj form of it puro  f p)
     Italian adv.
     1 too, also, as well
     2 well, surely
     3 please, by all means
     4 if you like; if you want (etc.)
     Italian conj.
     1 even though, even if, although
     2 nevertheless
     Middle English a.
     1 (l en pure), unadulterated,  undiluted, untarnished
     2 entire, total, all
     3 perfect, wonderful, unflawed
     4 morally clean, (l en pure), or upstanding
     5 chaste
     6 true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
     7 clear, obvious, simple
     Norwegian Nynorsk n.
     (alt sp nocap=1 nn puré)
     Norwegian Nynorsk a.
     1 (infl of nn pur  def s)
     2 (infl of nn pur  p)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     Danish a.
     1 complete
     2 (adverbial) completely
     Danish alt.
     puree
     Danish n.
     puree
     Danish a.
     1 (inflection of da pur  def)
     2 (plural of da pur)
     Esperanto adv.
     purely
     French a.
     (inflection of fr pur  f s)
     Italian a.
     (adj form of it puro  f p)
     Italian adv.
     1 too, also, as well
     2 well, surely
     3 please, by all means
     4 if you like; if you want (etc.)
     Italian conj.
     1 even though, even if, although
     2 nevertheless
     Middle English a.
     1 (l en pure), unadulterated,  undiluted, untarnished
     2 entire, total, all
     3 perfect, wonderful, unflawed
     4 morally clean, (l en pure), or upstanding
     5 chaste
     6 true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
     7 clear, obvious, simple
     Norwegian Nynorsk n.
     (alt sp nocap=1 nn puré)
     Norwegian Nynorsk a.
     1 (infl of nn pur  def s)
     2 (infl of nn pur  p)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     n.
     purkaa lopputulos

From Finnish Wiktionary: Finnish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-fi-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     n.
     purkaa lopputulos

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pure
     Esperanto adv.
     (avledning eo pura adj); rent
     Tyska a.
     (böjning de adj pur)

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  pure /pjˈʊə/
  suiwer

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Pure /pjˈʊə/
  صافي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  pure //ˈpjoɹ// //ˈpjɔː// //ˈpjɚ// //ˈpjɜː// //ˈpjɝ// //ˈpjʊə// //ˈpjʊɹ// 
  1. безупречен
  free of flaws or imperfections
  2. непорочен
  free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean
  3. чист
  of a branch of science: done for its own sake