Look up: lustration

1. lustration
   The performance of a purificatory ceremony, for example, a body of people, a piece of land, a city.
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2. Lustration
   Lus·tra'tion noun [ Latin lustratio : confer French lustration .] 1. The act of lustrating or purifying. « And holy water for lustration bring.» Dryden. 2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or cere...
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3. Lustration
   • (n.) The act of lustrating or purifying. • (n.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
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4. lustration
   (from Latin lustratio, `purification by sacrifice`), any of various processes in ancient Greece and Rome whereby individuals or communities rid ... [1 related articles]
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5. Lustration
   `Lustration` has two meanings, historical and modern. Historically, it was the term for various ancient Greek and Roman purification rituals; see, e.g., "Lustration-->--> More recently, in the period after the fall of the various European Communist states in 1989 – 1991, the term came to...
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