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/ˈlʌstɹeɪt/ · verb
(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..
We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
"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."
Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.
Use lustrate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lustrate means (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..
Common synonyms include purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or, pass through.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
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