lustrate
verbEtymology
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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Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a…
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.
Synonym of pass through, traverse.
Synonym of look, look over, survey.
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Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.
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