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lustrates

lustrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lustrates

What is lustrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lustrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lustrate.

Words near lustrates in the dictionary

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

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