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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lustrate /ˈlʌstreɪt/

▶verb rare purify by sacrifice, washing, or other ritual action.

– derivatives
lustration noun.

– origin C17: from L. lustrat-, lustrare ‘purify by lustral rites’, from lustrum (see lustrum).

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