单词 | lustration |
释义 | lustrationn. 1. a. The action of lustrating; the performance of an expiatory sacrifice or a purificatory rite (e.g. by washing with water); the purification by religious rites (of a person or place from something). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > purification > [noun] washingc1375 purgationa1382 purificationc1384 expiation1532 emundation1610 lustration1614 februationa1652 lustrating1653 water purification1722 samskara1807 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §3. 720 A Muster, and ceremonious lustration of the Armie, was wont to be made at certaine times with great solemnitie. 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 153 The Lustration of houses was yearely usuall with the Romans in the moneth of February. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 380 The Lustrations of Cities and Countries from Plagues, Earthquakes, Prodigies. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 411 The Host to expiate next the King prepares, With pure Lustrations, and with solemn Pray'rs. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 285 Signatures of the cross, and lustrations by holy water. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 573 Enjoining the lustration of the city by solemn sacrifices. 1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians & Philemon 171 There were other points of ceremonial observance, in which the Essenes superadded to the law. Of these the most remarkable was their practice of constant lustrations. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 70/1 In Rome..there was a lustration of the fleet before it sailed, and of the army before it marched. b. gen. Washing. Chiefly jocular. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] swillingc1000 washing?c1225 lavendrya1483 laundry1533 laving1611 lavatory1620 lavation1627 lavement1650 laver1671 lavament1823 lustration1826 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xix. 81 The little girl..now too evidently bore the symptoms of long neglect, and Mrs. Cicely's plans of lustration were, therefore, the more needful. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 310 Birds are unceasingly attentive to neatness and lustration of their plumage. a1891 J. R. Lowell Old Eng. Dramatists (1892) iv. 78 The other never paid his washer-woman for the lustration of the legendary single shirt without which [etc.]. 2. figurative. Purification, esp. spiritual or moral. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > [noun] purginga1382 expurgationc1420 purgationc1425 undefoilingc1425 purgement1483 sublimating1559 sweetening1591 purgatory1596 purification1597 purge1598 depuration1603 refinement1611 castigation1615 lustrationc1635 purifaction1652 refreshing1719 depurating1762 epuration1800 neatifying1826 vastation1847 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > purification or refinement polishingc1400 mellowing1528 smoothing1577 polishment1594 refinement1611 alembication1616 lustrationc1635 purification1753 burnishing1780 smoothification1799 limation1852 c1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother (1959) v. i. 90 You may liue to make a faire lustration for your faults and die a happie Convert. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 179 The..excrementitious matter is separated by this inward lustration from the bloud. 1777 Earl of Chatham Speech on Addr. 18 Nov. Let them [the prelates] perform a lustration; let them purify..this country, from this sin. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity l. 140 St. Peter's mind is full of the Deluge as a type of the world's lustration. 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 166 The lustration of the two vulgar Laises by the pure imagination of Don Quixote. 3. The action of going round a place, viewing, or surveying it; the review (of an army). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > surveying thoroughly lustration1614 perlustration1640 1614 [see sense 1a]. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Lustration, a viewing, compassing. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lustration, compassing, viewing or going about on every side. 1752 E. Young Brothers (1777) i. i. 7 'Tis their great day, supreme of all their year, The fam'd lustration of their martial powers. 1849 Jeffrey in Cockburn Life Jeffrey (1852) I. 405 I have made a last lustration of all my walks and haunts, and taken a long farewell of garden, and terrace, and flowers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > inspection lustration1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xi. 360 How deepely hereby God was defrauded in the time of David,..will easily appeare by the summes of former lustrations . View more context for this quotation 5. = lustre n.2 rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes ii. iv One whose age runs fast to finish Its eighth lustration. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1614 |
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