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Definition of Lustral
1. a. Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
Definition of Lustral
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to (ritual) purification ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lustral
1. pertaining to a lustrum [adj] - See also: lustrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustral
Literary usage of Lustral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"In Homo tho priest used a small olive or laurel branch for sprinkling the people.
Infante were also sprinkled with lustral water. Lustrum. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... and three times round, With blessed olive branch and sprinkling dew, Purges
the people with ablution cold, In lustral rite; oft chanting, "Hail! ..."
3. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"Among these may be particularised a lustral ewer resting in a stand supported by
bulls' feet, which appears in front of a temple at Khorsabad,2 and a wine ..."
4. An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora by Dorothy Burr Thompson (1971)
"... filled with branches on vases depicting wedding preparations, perhaps for
lustral purposes. Young friends helped deck the bride before the wedding (57). ..."
5. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1886)
"... with a few drops of lustral water, "believed they blotted out their acts of
perjury;"1 and to relate, as Ovid did, the Metamorphoses of the gods, ..."
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