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lustrated

lustrated is the simple past and past participle of lustrate.

Meaning of 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.)
    Synonyms:
    purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or
  2. (ambitransitive) Synonym of pass through, traverse.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) Synonym of look, look over, survey.
    Synonyms:
    look, look over, survey
  4. (obsolete, transitive) Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.
    Synonyms:
    luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous

Questions about lustrated

What is lustrated the simple past and past participle of?
Lustrated is the simple past and past participle of lustrate.

Words near lustrated in the dictionary

  1. Luston
  2. lustra
  3. lustrable
  4. lustral
  5. lustrate
  6. lustrated
  7. lustrates
  8. lustrating
  9. lustratio
  10. lustration
  11. lustrational

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