'Lustration' definitions:
Definition of 'Lustration'
From: GCIDE
- Lustration \Lus*tra"tion\, n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
- 1. The act of lustrating or purifying. [1913 Webster]
- And holy water for lustration bring. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified. [1913 Webster]