lustrate

Definitions

1. Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
   transitive
2. Synonym of pass through, traverse.
   ambitransitive
3. Synonym of look, look over, survey.
   obsolete, transitive
4. Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.
   obsolete, transitive

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Examples

“We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.”

“"Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show⟳ them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish⟳ to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."”

“Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.”

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