purificatory

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Nirang—are clearly enjoined by Zoroaster in certain purificatory rights.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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 Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

In the philosophy of Plato, on the other hand, punishment was chiefly expiatory and purificatory.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

The rumbling of thunder means a temporary discontinuance of the work, and often a purificatory ceremony, of which I can give no details, becomes necessary and delays the work. 9Called g�s or g�i-as.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Prior to this ceremony he went through a special purificatory rite, immersing himself in the sea, an act to which the Greeks attributed great virtue.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley