Every five years

Usage examples of lustral.

Voehn Third Spine Cessorian Lustral Squadron, built in the fifth tenth of the third year of Haralaud, in the Vertebraean Axis, Khubohl III, Bunsser Minor.

The superstitious man, according to him, after having washed his hands with lustral water--that is, water in which a torch from the altar had been quenched--goes about with a laurel-leaf in his mouth, to keep off evil influences, as the pigs in Devonshire used, in my youth, to go about with a withe of mountain ash round their necks to keep off the evil eye.

She went through the brief lustral rite with a thoroughness that somehow calmed and assuaged her feeling of defilement.

To revive this blade of grass, it suffices to exercise the natural virtues, achieve perfection of sight and hearing, vigor of body, memory, and facility for learning, refinement of manners, through frequent ablutions, lustral ceremonies, hymns, prayers.

THE COUNTRY GODS I dwell, with all things great and fair: The green earth and the lustral air, The sacred spaces of the sea, Day in, day out, companion me.

At daybreak the bishops not only of the Ile, but of Bordeaux and Rouen and Canterbury, with many others, assembled to asperge the edifice with lustral water.

This is the source, then, whence the lustral water is drawn with which the poets have purified the cruellest of tragedies.

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?

Thus as he spoke, he took us by the hand And led us, nothing loth: beneath his roof Soon as we came, he bade his slaves prepare Baths for the strangers, that, the altars nigh, Beside the lustral ewers they might stand.

Moses exceedingly trembled, but ye are come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to God, and to the spirits of the perfected just, and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the lustral blood which speaks better things than that of Abel.

Certainly it is only by an exercise of the imagination, for spiritual impression, not for philosophical argument, that heaven can be said to be defiled by the sins of men on earth so as to need cleansing by the lustral blood of Christ.

The first days of the ceremonial were passed in sorrow and anxious silence, in fasting and expiatory or lustral offices.

Sacred baths and preparatory baptisms were used, lustrations, immersions, lustral sprinklings, and purifications of every kind.

Temple of Eleusis, all were required to wash their hands in a vase of lustral water placed near the entrance.