purificatory
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The Greeks, in their purificatory rites, sacrifice dogs, and often make use of what is called Periskylakismos.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
In the case of Orestes, for example, there is the madness which led to his capture, and his deliverance by means of the purificatory rite.
From The Poetics of Aristotle by S. H. (Samuel Henry) Butcher
Internally, it is mainly characterised by its ideal of Levitical holiness, the way in which it everywhere surrounds life with purificatory and propitiatory ceremonies, and its prevailing reference of sacrifice to sin.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Tylor, had the character of a purificatory rite, but it may be doubted whether this was its original form, any more than in the case of the Suovetaurilia or Pola ceremonies.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
This day was called the dies lustricus, the day of a purificatory rite; "est lustricus dies," says Macrobius, "quo infantes lustrantur et nomen accipiunt."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
