lustrate
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But universities, especially but not exclusively private schools, such as Stanford, have few incentives to lustrate.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2023
I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods.
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
The Athenians 117 being afflicted with pestilence invited Epimenides to lustrate their city.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
With the first And finest breath, which from the genial strife Of mineral fermentation springs, like light O'er the fresh morning's vapours, lustrate then The fountain, and inform the rising wave.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
Instead, the era's sense and sentiment is often best il lustrated by the casual sketch, the minor masterwork by the relative unknown.
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“By them lustrated, and the potent song “Nine times repeated, earthly taints to cleanse, “They bade me 'neath an hundred gushing streams “To place my bosom.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
The religious precautions thus taken in April were not renewed in May; but at the end of that month of ripening the whole of the ager Romanus was lustrated by the Fratres Arvales.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and il- 200:6 lustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Thus the community is "lustrated" every six Months.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
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