purificatory
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Thus in many cases the worshiper had to be prepared by purificatory and other ceremonies, and the priest had to submit to certain rules before he could undertake the sacrifice.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Neither birth, nor the purificatory rites, nor learning, nor offspring, can be regarded as grounds for conferring upon one the regenerate status.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Internally, it is mainly characterised by its ideal of Levitical holiness, the way in which it everywhere surrounds life with purificatory and propitiatory ceremonies, and its prevailing reference of sacrifice to sin.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Then the body was carried to a certain spot where all the people stood upon it as a purificatory ceremony.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
In the case of Orestes, for example, there is the madness which led to his capture, and his deliverance by means of the purificatory rite.
From The Poetics of Aristotle by S. H. (Samuel Henry) Butcher
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