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)
- 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
- Synonym of pass through, traverse.
- Synonyms:
- pass through, traverse
- Synonym of look, look over, survey.
- 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
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