Definition of "lustrate"

lustrate

verb
third-person singular simple present lustrates, present participle lustrating, simple past and past participle lustrated
1. (transitive) Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering or (historical) the lustration, quinquennial ritual of the Roman censor to cleanse the city after a census.
  Quotations
  We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city.
  c. 1650, Henry Hammond, Miscellaneous Theological Works..., Vol. 3, Sermon 23, p. 503 (1850 ed.)
  "Well," said Hypatia, more and more listlessly; "it might be more prudent to show them first the fairer and more graceful side of the old Myths... I wish to lustrate them afresh for the service of the gods."
  1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hypatia
  Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated dayIn wind-lustrated hollows crystalline.
  1909, Edith Wharton, “An Autumn Sunset”, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Poems
2. (transitive, intransitive, with 'through') Synonym of pass through, traverse.
3. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of look, look over, survey.
4. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.