English edit

Etymology edit

Compare French purificatif.

Adjective edit

purificative (comparative more purificative, superlative most purificative)

  1. Having power to purify or cleanse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for purificative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)