different between lustrate vs lustration

English

Etymology

Latin lustratus, past participle of lustrare (“to lustrate”), from lustrum. See lustrum.

Verb

lustrate (third-person singular simple present lustrates, present participle lustrating, simple past and past participle lustrated)

1. To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
   • c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, D. D., Vol. 3 (1850 edition), Sermon 23, p. 503 (Google preview):

     We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.

   • 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 20:

     "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."

   • 1909, Edith Wharton, "An Autumn Sunset" in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Poems:

     Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day

     In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.

Anagrams

• tutelars

Italian

Verb

lustrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of lustrare
2. second-person plural imperative of lustrare
3. feminine plural of lustrato

Latin

Participle

l?str?te

1. vocative masculine singular of l?str?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lustratio.

Noun

lustration (countable and uncountable, plural lustrations)

1. (religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.
2. (politics, law) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

Derived terms

• lustral, lustrical

Related terms

• lustrate

Translations

References

• Lustration in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Lustratio in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875
• lustration at OneLook Dictionary Search