Citations:lustrical

English citations of lustrical

Noun

• 1806, Nathaniel Hooke, The Roman History, page 96:

  This name was properly personal, equivalent to that of baptism with us, and imposed with ceremonies somewhat analogous to it, on the ninth day, called the lustrical, or day of purification;

• 1815, Micaiah Towgood, Dissertations on Christian Baptism, page 17:

  It was the custom of the Romans, on the ninth day from the child's birth ( which was called the lustrical, or the day of purification ) for its friends and relations to bring it to the temple, and before the altars of the gods, to recommend it to the protection of some tutelar deity.

• 2017, Robert Harris, Imperium (Book One), page 334:

  It was a matter of great pride to me, and a mark of my growing standing within the family, that I was invited to attend the lustrical, on the ninth day following the birth.

Adjective

• 1921, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of folk psychology, page 407:

  Purgatorial lustration, after the pattern of terrestrial cult ceremonies, was believed to be effected by means of fire, this being regarded as the most lustrical agency, and as combining the function of punishment with that of purification.

• 1954, Bulletin of the Faculty of Science - Issue 30, page 149:

  one of the oldest known medicinal plants which was already used by the ancient Egyptians in offerings and lustrical ceremonies