the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
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a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
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the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing
<noun.act> purification through repentance
Purification \Pu`ri*fi*ca"tion\, n. [F. purification, L. purificatio. See {Purify}.] 1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.
2. The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished. --Luke ii. 22.
3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
Non-combat reservists provide support such as medical care, intelligence analysis, aircraft maintenance, truck driving, water purification and legal assistance.
A survivor described the ritual as a purification ceremony conducted with a cardboard likeness of the Virgin Mary and a rope tied with 13 knots.
The researchers found that the microbe got through the county's filtering and purification system even though it met standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency in Boston said that federally protected wetlands are important for flood control, water purification and wildlife habitats.
At another seven sites, all work as been completed except groundwater pumping for purification, which may continue for years or decades.
Red Cross offices in Britain, the Netherlands and Denmark are flying in 1,000 tents, nearly 50,000 blankets and 1 million water purification tablets.
An American C5-A Galaxy trasnport plane arrived in Dhaka today, carrying water tanks and purification units and plastic sheeting to be used for temporary shelters.
The water purification unit has been at Fort Stewart, training hard since Thursday.
Millipore, which makes analytical and purification products, earlier said in Bedford, Mass., that it planned to use proceeds from the offering to reduce short-term debt and for general corporate purposes.
Calgon is a Pittsburgh-based maker and marketer of activated carbon products used for purification of liquids and gases.
A purification system failed at a gas refinery in the Ural Mountains and released a cloud of hydrogen sulphide that poisoned 52 people and contaminated a village beyond remedy, a newspaper reported.
President Yang Shangkun takes time away from overseeing the ideological purification of the People's Liberation Army to tour South America and announce that he's found lots of friends there.
A Shinto purification ceremony preceded the launching of the Nippon.
Cram, Pedersen and Lehn could be used to separate radioactive tissues from other tissues and for the purification of molecules, and may have future application in energy production.
The Army faces an increasing need for individual volunteers to perform duties such as truck driving, water purification, medical service and graves registration, Hanrahan said.
Aquadem, the Paris-based water purification components supplier was acquired in December.
Without the charge, Millipore, which makes fluid analysis and purification products, said it would have had per-share earnings for the quarter of 64 cents.
UNITA said it did not know Cubans would be stationed at the water purification plant that was attacked.
But military planners determined they needed water purification specialists in Saudi Arabia and the Allendale, S.C., unit showed up on someone's list.
"It is for their souls I will be offering this Mass, as well as for the purification of the cathedral," the cardinal said.
National societies and governments have contributed more than 100 tons of relief supplies, including 1 million water purification tablets, the Red Cross said.
A spokesman said to acquire Ionics, a maker of purification equipment, Cenith would buy Ionics's shares and common stock warrants in a transaction with an indicated value of more than $90 million.
"We bow our heads in memory of the innocent victims," Vladimir A. Kryuchkov said on national television. "This is a moral purification for us all and a guarantee that it will never happen again.
The journey to eternity began in the Valley Temple, where the pharaoh's body was taken for ritual purification, perhaps embalming.
The latest word was that the water purification unit will leave this weekend.
Thousands of public water systems across the country will have to improve their purification equipment to reduce chemical contamination and comply with new Environmental Protection Agency standards.
Such a purification system can be made a feature of the garden, disguised as a pond or fountain. In the UK, there two bureaucratic problems may hinder potential water recyclers.
Lent, a period of fasting and penitence before Easter, should bring a "purification of the heart," he said in remarks at his general audience.