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Webster 1913 Edition

Lustrate

Lus′trate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lustrated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lustrating
.]
[L.
lustratus
, p. p. of
lustrare
to lustrate, fr.
lustrum
. See
Lustrum
.]
To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
We must purge, and cleanse, and
lustrate
the whole city.
Hammond.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lustrate

LUS'TRATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. lustro, to cleanse. See Luster.]
1.
To make clear or pure; to purify. [See Illustrate.]
2.
To view; to survey.

Definition 2025

lustrate

lustrate

English

Verb

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

  1. To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
    • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, D. D., Vol. 3 (1850 edition), Sermon 23, p. 503 (Google preview):
      We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
    • 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 20:
      "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."
    • 1909, Edith Wharton, "An Autumn Sunset" in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Poems:
      Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day
      In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.

Italian

Verb

lustrate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of lustrare
  2. second-person plural imperative of lustrare
  3. feminine plural of lustrato

Latin

Participle

lustrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of lustrātus

Etymology

Latin lustratus, past participle of lustrare ‎(“to lustrate”), from lustrum. See lustrum.

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