IMPURE Copy link • IMPUREPROPR. Not pure, mixed with extraneous ingredients, non purus: (aliqua re) contaminates (polluted by anything; opposed to integer). Impure air, aer non purus: impure water, aqua turbida (Cic.); aqua aliqua re inquinata (ablative of that by which it is rendered impure); aqua limo turbata (muddy, Hor.). IMPROPR., Of moral impurity, im purus (general term for what is opposed to moral purity: hence, also, unchaste, of persons and things; e.g., mores: ☞ not used PROP., in the best prose): incestus (unchaste): (flagitiis) inquinatus (stained; hence morally impure, of persons or things; with or without flagitiis): spurcus (probably aspirated from porcus; hence PROP., “swinish”: hence foully impure, etc., of persons or things). To lead an impure life, impure atque flagitiose vivere: an impure life, vita parum verecunda; vita libidinibus dedita: impure desires, libidines. With reference to style, inquinatus (e.g., of words, Cic., Opt. Gen. Or., 3, 7): *non or parum purus (☞ impurus is not found in this sense, but purus is used several times by Quintilian): barbarus (barbarous): parum or minus Latinus (of impure Latin).