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lustrate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈlʌstɹeɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aelrsttuStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To purify by ritual, or to screen officials for past misconduct.

Word origin

From Latin lustrātus (“lustrated”), perfect passive participle of lustrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lustrum (“ritual purification”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), q.v. In reference to imparting luster, further via senses of Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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