Definition of Lustral

1. a. Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.

Definition of Lustral

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to (ritual) purification ¹

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Definition of Lustral

1. pertaining to a lustrum [adj] - See also: lustrum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustral

lustiest
lustihead
lustihood
lustihoods
lustily
lustiness
lustinesses
lusting
lustingly
lustique
lustlessly
lustlessness
lustra
lustral (current term)
lustrate
lustrated
lustrates
lustrating
lustration
lustrations
lustre
lustred
lustreless
lustrelessly
lustrelessness
lustres
lustreware
lustrical

Literary usage of Lustral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"In Homo tho priest used a small olive or laurel branch for sprinkling the people. Infante were also sprinkled with lustral water. Lustrum. ..."

2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... and three times round, With blessed olive branch and sprinkling dew, Purges the people with ablution cold, In lustral rite; oft chanting, "Hail! ..."

3. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"Among these may be particularised a lustral ewer resting in a stand supported by bulls' feet, which appears in front of a temple at Khorsabad,2 and a wine ..."

4. An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora by Dorothy Burr Thompson (1971)
"... filled with branches on vases depicting wedding preparations, perhaps for lustral purposes. Young friends helped deck the bride before the wedding (57). ..."

5. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1886)
"... with a few drops of lustral water, "believed they blotted out their acts of perjury;"1 and to relate, as Ovid did, the Metamorphoses of the gods, ..."

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