Found 2 items, similar to lustrate.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: lustrate
lustrate
v : purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist
countries to refer to the political cleansing of former
officials
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Lustrate
Lustrate
\Lus"trate\, v. 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.
[1913 Webster]
We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole
city. --Hammond.
[1913 Webster]