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lustrate

[luhs-treyt] / ˈlʌs treɪt /


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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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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