Puritan
(Pu"ri*tan), a. Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
Puritanic
(Pu`ri*tan"ic Pu`ri*tan"ic*al) a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used by
way of reproach or contempt.
Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded.
Macaulay.
He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.
Hawthorne. Puritanically
(Pu`ri*tan"ic*al*ly), adv. In a puritanical manner.
Puritanism
(Pu"ri*tan*ism) n. The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.
Puritanize
(Pu"ri*tan*ize) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puritanized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puritanizing ] To agree
with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans. Bp. Montagu.
Purity
(Pu"ri*ty) n. [OE. purete, purte, OF. purté, F. pureté, from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See Pure.]
The condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as,
the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. (b) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The
purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. (c) Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as,
purity of heart or of life. (d) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. (e) Freedom
from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.
Purkinje's cells
(Pur"kin*je's cells`) [From J. E. Purkinje, their discoverer.] (Anat.) Large ganglion cells
forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.
Purl
(Purl) v. t. [Contr. fr. purfile, purfle. See Purfle.] To decorate with fringe or embroidery. "Nature's
cradle more enchased and purled." B. Jonson.
Purl
(Purl), n.
1. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold,
as of a band.
A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl.
Sir P. Sidney. 2. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
Purl stitch. Same as Purl, n., 2.
Purl
(Purl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Purled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Purling.] [Cf. Sw. porla, and E. pur to murmur
as a cat.]
1. To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to
make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills,
Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
Pope. 2. [Perh. fr. F. perler to pearl, to bead. See Pearl, v. & n.] To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to
curl; to mantle.
thin winding breath which purled up to the sky.
Shak.
