Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or of any species of earth or metal.

Any foul matter.

Unchastity; lewdness. The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy.

Want of sanctity or holiness; defilement by guilt.

Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.

Foul language; obscenity. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.