ablutionary
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There were indeed some ablutionary gestures in the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The ablutionary fluid is most difficult to be had in places where water is abundant.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 by Various
Like the other, he comes in priestly and ablutionary office.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
Upon one stood a basin, in which was water that had some time ago been used for the ablutionary purposes of someone sadly in need of a wash.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte
It was his Saturday and Sunday joy to bath Jean amid a score of crawly tin insects which he had provided for the child’s ablutionary entertainment, and it formed the climax of Jean’s blissful day.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball