Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lustration

Lustration , noun

[Latin lustratio: compare French lustration.]

1.
The act of lustrating or purifying.
And holy water for lustration bring. — Dryden
2.
(Antiquities) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.