lustral

They built others in other cities; but still they had a horror of tapers, lustral water, pontifical habits, etc.

Another suggestion is that he holds as often a lustral, or laurel bough, that he is figured as Daphnephoros, “Laurel-Bearer.”

It consisted in washing the hands, and sometimes the whole body, in lustral or consecrated water.

The boy through whose hand the water flows is from the Lacedemonians, but neither of the vessels for lustral water.

Ablutions and lustral purifications formed an article of faith with the Jew and Moslem, with whom cleanliness is godliness.