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impure 1. (in certain religions) a. (of persons) ritually unclean and as such debarred from certain religious ceremonies b. (of foodstuffs, vessels, etc.) debarred from certain religious uses 2. (of a colour) mixed with another colour or with black or white 3. of more than one origin or style, as of architecture or other design How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Verily, no food of which the impure could be fellow-partakers There are pictures of nude women which suggest no impure thought--I am well aware of that. Conspicuous among these latter, like an animated bit of the spiked wall of Newgate, Jerry stood: aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet he had taken as he came along, and discharging it to mingle with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great windows behind him in an impure mist and rain. |
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