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lustration|lʌˈstreɪʃən|
[ad. L. lūstrātiōnem, n. of action f. lūstrāre lustrate v.1]
1. The action of lustrating; the performance of an expiatory sacrifice or a purificatory rite (e.g. by washing with water); the purification by religious rites (of a person or place from something).
1614Raleigh Hist. World II. v. vi. §3. 621 A Muster, and ceremonious lustration of the Armie, was wont to be made at certeine times with great solemnitie. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 118 The Lustration of houses was yearely usuall with the Romans, in the Moneth of February. 1699Bentley Phal. 380 The Lustrations of Cities and Countries from Plagues, Earthquakes, Prodigies. 1715Pope Iliad i. 411 The host to expiate, next the king prepares, With pure lustrations, and with solemn prayers. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 414 Signatures of the cross, and lustrations by holy water. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. l. 183 Enjoining the lustration of the city by solemn sacrifices. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 171 There were other points of ceremonial observance, in which the Essenes superadded to the law. Of these the most remarkable was their practice of constant lustrations. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 70/1 In Rome..there was a lustration of the fleet before it sailed, and of the army before it marched.
b. gen. Washing. Chiefly jocular.
1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xix. 82 The little girl..now too evidently bore the symptoms of long neglect, and Mrs. Cicely's plans of lustration were, therefore, the more needful. 1829J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 310 Birds are unceasingly attentive to neatness and lustration of their plumage. 1887Lowell Old. Eng. Dram. (1892) 78 The other never paid his washer-woman for the lustration of the legendary single shirt without which [etc.].
2. fig. Purification, esp. spiritual or moral.
1655[Glapthorne] Lady Mother v. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 185 You may live To make a faire lustration for your faults And die a happie Convert. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 179 The..excrementitious matter is separated by this inward lustration from the bloud. 1777Earl of Chatham Sp. on Addr. 18 Nov., Let them [the prelates] perform a lustration; let them purify..this country, from this sin. 1882Farrar Early Chr. l. 140 St. Peter's mind is full of the Deluge as a type of the world's lustration. 1887Lowell Democr. 166 The lustration of the two vulgar Laises by the pure imagination of Don Quixote.
3. The action of going round a place, viewing, or surveying it; the review (of an army).
1614[see 1]. 1623Cockeram, Lustration, a viewing, compassing. 1656Blount Glossogr., Lustration, compassing, viewing or going about on every side. 1752Young Brothers i. i. (1777) 7 'Tis their great day, supreme of all their year, The fam'd lustration of their martial powers. 1849Jeffrey in Cockburn Life Jeffrey (1852) I. 405, I have made a last lustration of all my walks and haunts, and taken a long farewell of garden, and terrace, and flowers.
†4. A perambulation, inspection, census. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xi. 360 How deepely hereby God was defrauded in the time of David,..will easily appeare by the summes of former lustrations.
5. = lustre n.2 rare—1.
1853F. W. Newman Odes of Horace ii. iv, One whose age runs fast to finish Its eighth lustration. |