Lustration

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lustration \Lus*tra"tion\, n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
     1. The act of lustrating or purifying.
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              And holy water for lustration bring.  --Dryden.
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     2. (Antiq.) 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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