purification
The purification (too loud "pure") means to free some of slag or impurities and to clean it that way.
etymology
Etymologically, purification such as “louder”, “läutern” (from Middle High German liutern “purify, clarify, purify”), “explain” or also “purity” follows the adjective “louder”, as “pure”, “unclouded”, “sincere ". It goes back to ahd. (H) lūt (t) ar (8th century), Middle High German lūter ("bright, pure, clear, unmixed, merely"), the old Saxon. hlūttar , Middle Low German and Middle Netherlands. lūter , lutter (nl. louter is borrowed from New High German), old Gl . hlūt (t) or , Gothic hlūtrs (germ. * hlūtra-). They lead with the Greek klýzein (κλιειν) (for: “rinse, clean”, for example enema ) to the liturgical š lúoti (for “sweep, sweep”) and šlúota (“broom”).
The original meaning rinsed, washed is already too clear, light, unmixed in Old High German (in Middle High German: luter than "silver"); then often transferred to the attitude and disposition of a person ("pure character", "pure nature").
The meaning of “exclusively”, “merely”, which occurs in Middle High German, has often been used since the 16th century in the form of a rigid nominative, even today in e.g. B. “out of love”, “out of curiosity”.
Lautering, in turn, as a fore-meaning in the sense of "clean", "free from slag", "improve", results in the same way from the Old High German (h) lūt (t) aren ("purify", "clean", "make bright") ) and the (h) lūt (t) arēn ("to be bright", 8th century), Middle High German liutern , lūtern .
Also explain as “explain”, “clarify” leads back to the Old High German ir (h) lūtt (a) rēn (“make bright”).
Examples
purification referred
in different process technologies :
- Refining (glass) , the manufacture of glass,
- Refining (metal) , a metallurgical sheath process to clean silver and gold from other metals such as lead,
- Purification (forestry) , the maintenance of a forest culture,
- the separation of mash and wort, see brewing beer # lautering ,
- Lautering (fur) , the cleaning of fur with wood flour in the skinning
- Refining sugar , a sugar solution obtained by boiling sugar and water.
in literature
- Catharsis (literature) , a literary element of character development.
in (historical) criminal law (Germany)
- the purification or the purification process (in imperial law, after 1919), formerly an additional examination of the offense of a defendant by another judge.
in eschatology
- hist., the state in which the soul of a deceased is being prepared for heaven, d. H. the purgatory .
