Lustrate

Quick meaning: Lustrate is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, with 'through') Synonym of pass through, traverse.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, with 'through') Synonym of pass through, traverse.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of look, look over, survey.
2. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.
3. (transitive) Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.

Example Sentences

We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.

Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.

"Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."

Word Forms

• lustrates
• lustrating
• lustrated

Synonyms for lustrate

Depending on context, synonyms include purify, pass through, traverse, look, survey, luster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include luster, lustrify, limn, expiate, catharize, relume.

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