'Lustrate' definitions:
Definition of 'lustrate'
From: WordNet
verb
Purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials
Definition of 'Lustrate'
From: GCIDE
- 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]