Purple ¹

Definition: A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.

Purple ²

Definition: Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.

Purple ³

Definition: Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.

Purple ⁴

Definition: A cardinalate. See Cardinal.

Purple ⁵

Definition: Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

Purple ⁶

Definition: Any shell of the genus Purpura.

Purple ⁷

Definition: See Purpura.

Purple ⁸

Definition: A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.

Purple ⁹

Definition: Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.

Purple ¹⁰

Definition: Imperial; regal; so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

Purple ¹¹

Definition: Blood-red; bloody.

Purple ¹²

Definition: To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

purple ¹³

Definition: a chromatic color between red and blue

purple ¹⁴

Definition: of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"

purple ¹⁵

Definition: color purple

purple ¹⁶

Definition: become purple

purple ¹⁷

Definition: of a color midway between red and blue

purple ¹⁸

Definition: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag''s head"

purple ¹⁹

Definition: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"