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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

.]

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.