signifies all that ground near any forest, which being made forest by king Henry II. Richard I. and king John, was afterwards by perambulations and grants of Henry III. severed again from the same, and made purliue; that is to say, pure and free from the laws of the forest.—The word is derived from the French pur "pure," and lieu "place."

PURITY, the freedom of any thing from foreign admixture.

Purity of Style. See Oratory, n° 41.