Anon she gathered handfuls of dry dust, Then, holding high a well-wrought brazen urn, Thrice on the dead she poured a lustral stream.
Let no man in this land, whereof I hold The sovereign rule, harbor or speak to him; Give him no part in prayer or sacrifice Or lustral rites, but hound him from your homes.
Then laved with lustral waves the mangled corse, Laid it on fresh-lopped branches, lit a pyre, And to his memory piled a mighty mound Of mother earth.
The clean lustral water and the full incense-box were carried after them.
The ancients had their lustralwater for sprinkling and purifying the people.
The ancients called Dies Lustricus, or Lustral Day, that whereon the lustrations were performed for a child, and its name given, which was the ninth day from the birth of a boy, and the eighth from that of a girl.
A comparison of the ancient lustral water vase and the modern perfumery vending machine will show that they are substantially alike.
He says that it is expedient to arrange them in such a way that the rotation of the wheel will cause the flow of the lustral water.
Eggs were much used in lustral sacrifices, probably from being the purest of all food (cf.
That day was called lustricus, because of the lustralwater used to purify the new born child.
But you can not use too much haste[41] in making ready the lustral waters and the consecrations.
And we brought them to the king of this land, but he, when he beheld them, sent them as quickly as possible to thee for lustralwaters and sacrifice.
Not so; but I shall lave around thy head with the lustral stream.
And the seer Calchas will to his cost consecrate the sacrificial cakes andlustral waters.
Are not the lustral waters and thy sword already engaged?
I deplore thee now destined to the gory streams of the lustral waters.
But the son of Peleus ran around the altar of the Goddess, taking the canister and lustral waters at the same time.
For male children are the pillars of the house, and those whom my lustral waters[13] sprinkle die.
Fair dewy streams, and lustral waters from ancestral sources[101] await thee, and the host of the Greeks eager to reach Troy.
Glittering Jordan of love, where the wandering Musset drank lustral beauty in waves.
A Ba or soul receiving thelustral water from a tree-goddess 10 8.
Straight to the anxious King he hied, Whom lustralrites had purified-- The mournful story to unfold And all the King of birds had told.
Calmly the youths that night reposed, And rose when morn her light disclosed-- Their morning worship paid, and took Of lustral water from the brook.
With the lustral water he washes or sprinkles the buffaloes, the yoke, and the plough.
Aztec life ended as it had begun, with the ceremonial lustration; it was one of the funeral ceremonies to sprinkle the head of the corpse with the lustral water of this life.
It consisted in washing the hands, and sometimes the whole body, in lustral or consecrated water.
You will bathe in the lustralwaters and become cleansed.
The great poem on Nature, the Lustral Precepts, and the Discourse on Medicine were all celebrated among the ancients.
His lovely chapter on the temple of Aesculapius seems to be made entirely of morning light, bubbling springs, and pure mountain air; and the religious influence of these lustral elements is his constant theme.
This merry festival was over and gone, and the canal was all brimming with the lustral renewal of its waters, its depths flashing now and again with the passage of wary survivors of that spring battue.
The rest of the day would be hallowed for him by that morning memory and his actions would partake of the largeness and chastity of that lustral hour.
This real or supposed efficacy was scarcely discovered before it became the domain of priests: and common rain or river water became valuable and sanctified when blessed by them: hence the introduction of lustral water.
Or, dumb with ignominy Like that with which he perished, shall I pour Libations on the earth, and like a man That flings away the lustral filth, shall I Throw down the urn and walk with eyes not turned?
IV Shadows are lustralin the iris'd dawn; From a branch on high whence a bird has fled Dew drops tremble and are gone.
With the seventh the marriage is completed; and the Brahman sprinkles the youthful pair with lustral water.
The boy through whose hand the water flows is from the Lacedemonians, but neither of the vessels for lustral water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lustral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
