lustrate

Verb

lustrate (third-person singular simple present lustrates, present participle lustrating, simple past and past participle lustrated)

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.c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works..., Vol. 3, Sermon 23, p. 503 (1850 ed.)
   • "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."1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hypatia

   Synonyms:

   purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or

2. (ambitransitive) Synonym of pass through, traverse.

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   pass through, traverse

3. (obsolete, transitive) Synonym of look, look over, survey.

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   look, look over, survey

4. (obsolete, transitive) Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.

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   luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous