Impure

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.

3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. "Impure desires." Cowper.

4. Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.

5. Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.