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люстрации (1. a. • a purificatory ceremony performed as a preliminary to entering a holy place, as a means of removing bloodguiltiness, on the occasion of a birth, marriage, or death, or as a means of ceremonially cleansing a house, a city, army, or a whole people on some special occasion lustration with water is a prominent feature in Babylonian cult – W.L.Wardle b. • an act or instance of cleansing especially by moral or spiritual purification the lustration of penitents – Lawrence Durrell the Deluge as a type of the world's lustration – F.W.Farrar c. • an act of washing • ablution had not lost the … habit of personal lustration – D.W.Bone 2. archaic • a tour of inspection • survey have made a last lustration of all my walks and haunts, and taken a long farewell – Francis Jeffrey. WTNI Alexander Demidov) |
