PURPLE
ADJECTIVES
► BEPURFURATE purpled, rosy-tinged, rosy-coloured → 1584
► MURREY mulberry-coloured; reddish purple or blood red in colour → 1400
► PUNICEOUS of a bright red or purple colour → a1398
► PUNICIAL of a bright red or purple colour → 1606
► PURPIE purple → 1651 Sc.
► PURPURACEOUS purple in colour → 1788 obs.
► PURPURATE purple in colour; clothed in purple; also, blood-coloured, bloodstained → 1422 arch. & poetic usage
► PURPURE of a purple colour → 1200 obs.
► PURPUREAL purple in colour → 1708 chiefly poetic usage
► PURPUREAN purple in colour → 1656 obs.
► PURPUREOUS purplish; purple in colour → 1657
► PURPURINE of a purple colour or tinge → 1300
VERBS
► IMPURPURE to make purple → 1552 Sc. obs.
► PURPURATE to make purple, to tinge with purple → 1642 obs.
► PURPURIZE to make purple → 1632 obs.
Lexicophilia 