ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not cleansed or freed from baser elements or admixture.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 268. Ginger Mechino … is sould vnclensed or vnpurged.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., II. i. 266. The Rhewmy, and vnpurged Ayre.
a. 1661. Holyday, Persius (1673), 306. This from th’ unpurged earth made us desire To strain out veins of gold by purging fire.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 419. Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurg’d Vapours not yet into her substance turn’d.
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., II. IV. x. 61. Instruments sweeter than the unpurged ear ever heard.
1874. Farrar, Christ, I. 118. Which to the dull unpurged ear was but inarticulate thunder.
2. Not freed or cleared from wrong-doing, accusation, etc.
1530. Rastell, New Bk. Purgatory, III. viii. f 4 b. That the soule vnpurged maye do some meane & lowe seruyce to god in heuen.
1586. J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 70/1. The prisoner deceased in the castell, and because he stood vnpurged, long he laie vnburied.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., 11. So long as I should suffer my honest estimation to lye unpurg’d from these insolent suspicions.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xix. 250. Hell is wide open … to euery unpurged person.
1738. Wesley, Ps. VI. iii. Who dies unpurg’d for ever dies.
3. Not removed or cleared away.
a. 1617. Hieron, Wks. (1620), II. 415. That there is some secret euill in vs, which is vnpurged and vnreformed.
1682. Flavel, Fear, 39. The unpurged relicts of unbelief.
1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., 874. A man who had yet the unpurged pollution of a mother’s blood upon him.
1884. Chr. Commw., 14 Feb., 415/2. The Church,… corrupted by the unpurged influences of the great Apostacy.
