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单词 lustration
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lustrationn.

Brit. /lʌˈstreɪʃn/, U.S. /ləˈstreɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin lūstrātiōnem, noun of action < lūstrāre lustrate v.1
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.
4. A perambulation, inspection, census. Obsolete.
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).
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