Lustrations were also made after acts by which one might be polluted; as after murder, or after having assisted at a funeral.
Lustrations were necessary to be made before entrance on any important religious duty, viz.
And again; his baptism as narrated by the Evangelists, and their lustrations as described in Josephus, have nothing in common except the use of water for a religious purpose.
If the lustrations of the Essenes far outstripped the enactments of the Mosaic law, so also did their asceticism.
On the eve of Epiphany after nightfall the springs and rivers were blessed, and water was drawn from them and stored for the whole year to be used in lustrations and baptisms.
Galleys were waiting on a certain night to take it on board and transport it to Italy and elsewhere for libations and lustrations in the Temples of Isis.
It would seem that two of these lustrations were practiced upon every infant, and the first took place immediately upon its birth.
And besides the great periodical ceremonies of purification, a multitude of minorlustrations were exacted by the cult.
Hence the ancient custom of bathing in the Ganges, the waters of which were thought to be sacred; hence the lustrations so frequent among every people.
Lustrations and sacrifices were not, however, the only preparatives for inducing the visionary disposition.
Sacrifices and lustrations they have, but no assurance of absolution.
The inmost shrine was trodden once a year only by the high priest, and only after anxious lustrations and when clothed in pure garments, he entered 'with sacrifice and incense lest he die.
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.
There were public lustrationsfor purifying cities, fields, and people defiled by crime or impurity.
The Church,' he says, 'has happily changed thelustrations of the Pagans, which took place in February around the fields.
These lustrations are practiced, even in our days, by many of the Pagans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lustrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
