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lustration

lustration


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lustration  \Lus*tra"tion\,  n.  [L.  lustratio:  cf  F.  lustration.] 
  1.  The  act  of  lustrating  or  purifying. 
 
  And  holy  water  for  lustration  bring  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  (Antiq.)  A  sacrifice,  or  ceremony,  by  which  cities, 
  fields,  armies,  or  people,  defiled  by  crimes,  pestilence, 
  or  other  cause  of  uncleanness,  were  purified.