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lustrate

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/ˈlʌstɹeɪt/

Definition of lustrate

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verb

  1. (transitive)Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
    “We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.”
    “"Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."”
    “Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
    “We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.”
    “"Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."”
    “Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.”
  2. (ambitransitive)Synonym of pass through, traverse.
  3. (obsolete, transitive)Synonym of look, look over, survey.
  4. (obsolete, transitive)Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.

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Etymology

From Latin lustrātus (“lustrated”), perfect passive participle of lustrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lustrum (“ritual purification”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), q.v. In reference to imparting luster, further via senses of Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro.

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