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▪ I. lustrate, v.1|ˈlʌstreɪt| [f. L. lūstrāt-, ppl. stem of lūstrāre, to purify by lustral rites, to go round, review, survey, f. lūstrum: see lustrum.] 1. trans. To purify by a propitiatory offering; to cleanse by (or as if by) lustration; gen. to purify.
1653[see lustrating below]. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 18/1 There was also a great Plague; the Oracle advis'd them to lustrate the City. Ibid. 57/1 He [Epimenides] is reported to be the first that lustrated Houses and Fields, which he performed by Verse. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan iii. 601 Barb'rous Priests some dreadful Pow'r adore, And lustrate ev'ry Tree with human Gore. 1746T. Seward Conform. betw. Popery & Paganism 55 This Custom of Nurses lustrating the Children by Spittle. 1818J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 319 The city was solemnly lustrated by holy water and missions,..to purge away the contagion of the French. 1891tr. De La Saussaye's Man. Sci. Relig. xix. 160 The sacrificial animals were led round the object which was to be lustrated. †2. a. intr. To pass or go through (a place). b. trans. To pass through or traverse. Obs.
1632Vicars æn. viii. 303 Thrice through Aventines mount he doth lustrate. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 83 His soul lustrates and pervades through all things. 1721Bailey, Gangweek, the Time when the bounds of the Parishes are lustrated by the Parish-Officers, Rogation-Week. †3. trans. To view, survey. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Lustrate, to view. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) Ep. Ded., The parts thereof, as fast as I could finish them, were lustrated by Your gracious Eye. Hence ˈlustrating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1653Manton Exp. James iii. 17 Being in an idol temple, the lustrating water fell upon them. 1653Hammond Par. & Annot. N.T., 1 Cor. iv. 13 Wks. 1659 III. 520 Περικαθαρµατα [filth] signifies those things that are used in the lustrating of a city among the Gentiles. 1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead II. 52 Lustrating or purging Fires. 1846New Timon (ed. 3) 178 The penitent offering the lustrating tide. ▪ II. † ˈlustrate, v.2 Obs. [f. lustre n.1 + -ate.] trans. To impart lustre to; = lustre v.
1688Abridgm. Spec. Patents, Weaving (1861) 1 Invencion of making, dressing, and lustrateing silke, called black plain, alamodes, ranforcees, and lutestringes. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2454/4 Peter Du Clou who Dresseth and Lustrateth Silks, Stuffs, &c. 1697–8Act 9 Will. III, c. 43 §13. |