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Webster 1913 Edition


Lustrate

Lus′trate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lustrated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Lustrating
.]
[L.
lustratus
, p. p. of
lustrare
to lustrate, fr.
lustrum
. See
Lustrum
.]
To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
We must purge, and cleanse, and
lustrate
the whole city.
Hammond.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lustrate

LUS'TRATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. lustro, to cleanse. See Luster.]
1.
To make clear or pure; to purify. [See Illustrate.]
2.
To view; to survey.