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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.
Perlustration
Perlustration 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

- 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")...
- 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...
- of a propitiatory offering. The term is taken from the ancient Roman lustratio purification rituals. After the fall of the various European Communist...
- 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...
- Ceriales (Ceres' games). She was also honoured in the May lustration (lustratio) of the fields at the Ambarvalia festival: at harvesttime: and during...
- 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...
- Hebrews to the Gr****s and Romans (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio), Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis) and from the Aztecs to the...
- 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...