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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LUSTRA'TION, n.
1. The act or operation of making clear or pure; a cleansing or purifying by water.
And holy water for lustration bring.
2. In antiquity, the sacrifices or ceremonies by which cities, fields, armies or people defiled by crimes, were purified.

Merriam Webster's

noun see lustrate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lustration Lus*tra"tion, n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.] 1. The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. --Dryden. 2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Purification, cleansing, washing. 2. (Antiq.) Religious purification, ceremony of purification, lustrum.