Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not pure or clean; contaminated.
- adj. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.
- adj. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts.
- adj. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.
- adj. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.
- adj. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic: an impure art form.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not pure physically; mixed or impregnated with extraneous, and especially with offensive, matter; foul; feculent; tainted: as, impure water or air; impure salt or magnesia.
- Not simple or unmixed; mixed or combined with something else: said of immaterial things.
- Not pure morally; unchaste; obscene; lewd: as, impure language or ideas; impure actions.
- Of a contaminating nature; causing defilement, physical or moral; unclean; abominable.
- Not in conformity with a standard of correctness, simplicity, etc.: as, an impure style of writing.
- To make impure; defile.
- To grow impure.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
- adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
- adj. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
- v. transitive (obsolete) to defile; to pollute
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated.
- adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
- adj. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene.
- adj. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
- adj. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic
- v. obsolete To defile; to pollute.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. combined with extraneous elements
- adj. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
- adj. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
Etymologies
- From Latin impurus (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Her claim that the term impure (teme’ah) is obfuscated because of its biblical connotation of transmission of impurity and the rabbinic usage of unavailability for sexual purposes needs further clarification.”
“In order that Allah may seperate the impure from the pure, Put All the impure ones (Non-Muslim), one on top of the another in a Heap and cast them into Hell.”
“Already, it had begun to dissect the impure from the pure and to find logic at the speed of existence.”
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“Typhoid fever, also due to a bacillus, which enters the body chiefly in impure water but sometimes in milk or other foods, is distinctly a preventable disease.”
“Will it not follow that he is so, if he engage us to receive a doctrine that gives liberty to sin, or by which we are so far from being justified that we remain impure sinners, and unfit to be conversed with?”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“While Hargood initially disdains purity--at one point he proudly describes himself as "impure"--he comes to see that purity cannot be separated from autonomy, a respect for one's own liberty and the liberty of others.”
“Since purification is another name for the process of ridding oneself of fleeting stains, Maitreya called the three viewpoints "impure," "impure and pure," and "completely pure" - yet another usage of the terms impure and pure.”
“The obvious implication of that label is that approximately half a million other ethnic Hawaiians should be labeled "impure" -- somehow polluted by the admixture of the other parts of their genealogies.”
“To confuse things further, although St. Paul viewed the homosexual acts he referred to as impure, “dishonorable,” and “shameless,” he didn’t say that they were evil or a sin.”
“They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code, which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure.”
The Huffington Post: Warren J. Blumenfeld: Laying Down The Law
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etymology
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