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Flustration
Flustration Flus*tra"tion, n.
The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.]
--Richardson.
Illustration
Illustration Il`lus*tra"tion, n. [L. illustratio: cf. F.
illustration.]
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and
distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated,
or of being made clear and distinct.
2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended
to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a
literary work.
Lustration
Lustration Lus*tra"tion, n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1. The act of lustrating or purifying.
And holy water for lustration bring. --Dryden.
2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities,
fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence,
or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
PerlustrationPerlustration Per`lus*tra"tion, n. [L. perlustrare to wander
all through, to survey. See 3d Luster.]
The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] --Howell.
Meaning of Lustratio from wikipedia
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Lustratio was an
ancient Gr**** and
ancient Roman purification ritual. It
included a
procession and in some cir****stances the
sacrifice of a pig (sus)...
- (ovis) and a bull (taurus) to the
deity Mars to
bless and
purify land (
Lustratio).
There were two kinds:
suovetaurilia lactentia ("suckling suovetaurilia")...
- Lupercalia. The most
famous person to
serve as a
lupercus was Mark Antony. The
lustratio is a
ritual of
purification that was held
every five
years under the jurisdiction...
-
Ceriales (Ceres' games). She was also
honoured in the May
lustration (
lustratio) of the
fields at the
Ambarvalia festival: at harvesttime: and during...
- ages,
which however, as we have seen, was not
observed with regularity.
Lustratio Decade Century Millennium Oxford Latin Desk
Dictionary (2005). Oxford:...
- were
ritually garlanded, led
around the
outer perimeter of the camp (a
lustratio exercitus) and in
through a gate, then sacrificed: Trajan's
column shows...
-
expiating human sacrifice.
There is also no
doubt a
connection with the
lustratio in that both rely on
purification by the air. One or more of the preceding...
- of a
propitiatory offering. The term is
taken from the
ancient Roman lustratio purification rituals.
After the fall of the
various European Communist...
- positions. The term lustration, "cleansing",
stems from the
Latin word
lustratio, for a
Roman purification ceremony. The
first Polish lustration bill was...
- A
large frieze,
known as the
Altar of
Domitius Ahenobarbus,
showing a
lustratio of a
Roman army and a sea thiasus,
probably comes from this temple—it...
