lustrate

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.Examples: "We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city."; ""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.""; "Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated day In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline."Synonyms: purify, to ritually cleanse or renew, particularly to do so with a propitiatory offering ortransitive

2. (ambitransitive, with 'through') Synonym of pass through, traverse.Synonyms: pass through, traverseambitransitive

3. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of look, look over, survey.Synonyms: look, look over, surveyobsoletetransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) Synonym of luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrous.Synonyms: luster, to impart luster to, to make lustrousobsoletetransitive