Defn: The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton.
IMPURITY Im*pu"ri*ty, n.; pl. Impurities. Etym: [L. impuritas: cf. F. impureté.]
1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.
2. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.
3. (Script.)
Defn: Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.
IMPURPLE
Im*pur"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impurpled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Impurpling.] Etym: [Pref. im- in + purple. Cf. Empurple.]
Defn: To color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to
purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.
Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton.
The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.
IMPUTABILITY
Im*put`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality of being imputable; imputableness.