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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.

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Examples

  • His wound had been depurated, packed, stitched, and dressed.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • If, then, in this purgation it be properly and moderately depurated, and neither more nor less than what is proper be secreted from it, the head is thus in the most healthy condition.

    On The Sacred Disease 2007

  • For the brain, like the other organs, is depurated and grows before birth.

    On The Sacred Disease 2007

  • His wound had been depurated, packed, stitched, and dressed.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • In the pulmonary circulation, the blood is aerated, decarbonized, and otherwise depurated; whilst in the systemic circulation, it is carbonized and otherwise deteriorated.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • When it has been depurated, put it on the fire in the following proportion and with the piece of cinnamon that was already immersed in the cherries: Twelve pounds of liquid to sixteen pounds of sugar and two ounces of citric acid, or three parts of liquid to four of sugar and the citric acid as in the above proportion.

    The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well Maria Gentile

  • Paracelsus affirming, that by Metals, of Metals, and with Metals, cleansed, Spiritual, and first depurated from their feculency, are made Metals, and the Living

    The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

  • Purpose, all these words acquired another and a deeper meaning, were stamped with a new character, acquired a new value, and the depurated ideas which they now expressed opposed each other, and combined with each other, until the universe was seen pierced by a plexus of thoughts, and resting calmly within it.

    Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

  • If there were no compression by ligatures or otherwise, of any other part of the system, and if the impure blood came back to the lungs for renovation as fast as it ought, still it would not be properly depurated or renovated, unless the lungs acted in a full, healthy and rigorous manner.

    The Young Woman's Guide William A. Alcott 1824

  • It was long before the spirit of true piety and true wisdom, involved in the principles of the Reformation, could be depurated from the dregs and feculence of the contention with which it was carried through.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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