purificatory

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Whether the use of purificatory water is to be traced to the sense of moral or spiritual sin is doubtful to my mind; in view of the general nature of primitive Shinto.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

The rumbling of thunder means a temporary discontinuance of the work, and often a purificatory ceremony, of which I can give no details, becomes necessary and delays the work. 9Called g�s or g�i-as.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

In the philosophy of Plato, on the other hand, punishment was chiefly expiatory and purificatory.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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 Wellhausen, Julius

This transmission requires a purificatory process in the vehicles and a special training of the will.

From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Rothwell, Fred