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lustrate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lustrate  \Lus"trate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Lustrated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Lustrating}.]  [L.  lustratus  p.  p.  of  lustrare  to 
  lustrate,  fr  lustrum.  See  {Lustrum}.] 
  To  make  clear  or  pure  by  means  of  a  propitiatory  offering;  to 
  purify. 
 
  We  must  purge,  and  cleanse,  and  lustrate  the  whole 
  city.  --Hammond. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lustrate 
  v  :  purify  by  means  of  a  ritual;  also  used  in  post-Communist 
  countries  to  refer  to  the  political  cleansing  of  former 
  officials 




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