Pured vs Mured - What's the difference?
pured | mured |
(obsolete) purified; refined.
(mure)
(obsolete) wall
:— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
(obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
As an adjective pured
is purified; refined.As a verb mured is
past tense of mure.pured
English
Adjective
(-)- Bread of pured wheat. — Chaucer.
- Pured gold. — Chaucer.
mured
English
Verb
(head)mure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
- Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
- Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
References
* Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.Adjective
(-)Verb
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).