Definitions for lustration
lus·tra·tion

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1. lustrationnoun

   A rite of purification, especially washing.

2. lustrationnoun

   The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

3. Etymology: Latin lustratio

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lustrationnoun

   Purification by water.

   Etymology: lustration, French; lustratio, Lat.

   Job’s religious care,
   His sons assembles, whose united prayer,
   Like sweet perfumes, from golden censors rise;
   He with divine lustrations sanctifies. George Sandys, Paraphrase.

   That spirits are corporeal seems a conceit derogative unto himself, and such as he should rather labour to overthrow; yet thereby he establisheth the doctrine of lustrations, amulets, and charms. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i.

   What were all their lustrations but so many solemn purifyings, to render both themselves and their sacrifices acceptable to their gods. Robert South, Sermons.

   Should Io’s priest command
   A pilgrimage to Meroe’s burning sand;
   Through desarts they wou’d seek the secret spring,
   And holy water for lustration bring. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   By ardent pray’r, and clear lustration,
   Purge the contagious spots of human weakness;
   Impure no mortal can behold Apollo. Matthew Prior.

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1. Lustration

   ‹See Tfd› Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their eventual past role as a witting confidential collaborator (informant) of relevant former communist secret police, an activity widely condemned by the public opinion of those states as morally corrupt due to its essential role in suppressing political opposition and enabling persecution of dissidents. Surfacing of evidence for such a past activity typically inflicts severe reputation damage to the person concerned. It should not be confused with decommunization which is the process of barring former communist regular officials from public offices as well as eliminating communist symbols. The principle of non-retroactivity means that a past role of a confidential collaborator (informant) is alone as such inadmissible from the beginning for criminal prosecution or conviction, thus, lustration allows at least to bring such past collaborators to moral responsibility by making the public opinion aware of the established outcomes through their free dissemination. Another motivation was the fear that undisclosed past confidential collaboration could be used to blackmail public officials by foreign intelligence services of other former Warsaw Pact allies, in particular Russia. Depending on jurisdiction, either every positive result or only the one obtained regarding a person who falsely declared otherwise, may trigger consequences varying greatly among jurisdictions, ranging from mere infamy to purging the person from office and a 10-year exclusion from holding public offices. Various forms of lustration were employed in post-communist Europe.

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1. Lustrationnoun

   the act of lustrating or purifying

2. Lustrationnoun

   a sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified

3. Etymology: [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]

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1. Lustration

   Lustration is the government process regulating the participation of former communists, especially informants of the communist secret police, in the successor political appointee positions or in civil service positions in the period after the fall of the various European Communist states in 1989 – 1991. It also applies more broadly to the process of nations dealing with past human rights abuses or injustices that have occurred. The term is taken from the Roman lustrum purification rituals.

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1. lustration

   (Lat. lustratio). Sacrifices or ceremonies by which the ancients purified their cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by any crime or impurity. There were several ways of performing lustration, viz., by fire, by sulphur, by water, and by air. The Roman people underwent a lustration in the Campus Martius, after the census, which was taken every five years (lustrum), had been completed. In the armies, some chosen soldiers, crowned with laurel, led the victims—a cow, a sheep, and a bull—thrice round the army ranged in battle-array in the field of Mars, to which deity the victims were subsequently sacrificed, after many imprecations had been invoked upon the enemies of the Romans. The Gothic kings abolished these ceremonies when they became masters of Rome.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lustration in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lustration in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lustration
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lustration
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lustration
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lustration
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html