lustrum

lustrum englannista suomeksi

1. lustrum

0. Substantiivi

lustrum englanniksi

1. A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census. (defdate)

2. (quote-journal), ''in Two Parts''. By (w), D.D. Principal Library-keeper of the University of Cambridge. Printed for R. Manby, and H. S. Cox, 1747. Octavo. 169 Pages.|magazine=The Museum: Or, The Literary and Historical Register|location=London|publisher=Printed for Dodsley|Robert Dodsley(nb...)|date=28 February 1746|volume=II|issue=XXV|page=409|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065602057;view=1up;seq=477|oclc=931328825|passage=All theſe Magiſtrates were elected by, and from, the whole promiſcuous Body of the People in their public Aſſemblies; that after the Inſtitution of Cenſors, it was look'd upon as a Matter of Form only, that they should enroll the new Senators at the next general ''Luſtrum'', or Survey of the Commonwealth; (..)

3. (quote-book)

4. (synonym of): Any 5-year period.

5. (quote-book), and Dodsley|Robert Dodsley(nb...)|year=1742–1745|year_published=1750|page=29|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/complaintornigh11youngoogpage/n34/mode/1up|lines=172–174|oclc=3536108|passage=We puſh Time from us, and we wiſh Him back; / Laviſh of Luſtrums, and yet fond of Life; / ''Life'' we think long, and ſhort; ''Death'' ſeek, and ſhun; (..)

6. (quote-book); Palmer Putnam|George Palmer Putnam,(nb...)|year=1852|page=189|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgYtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA189|oclc=37611275|passage=I am hardly, if I do not deceive myself, twenty years old, and already, dearest Rosamunda, there weigh upon my existence twenty lustrums, and of these twenty lustrums I have drunk the bitterness of intranquility even to the dregs, without having done more than touched with my lips the joy of the first days of my childhood beside you.

7. bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow

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8. den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest

9. (a place of) debauchery

10. (senseid) a purificatory sacrifice (expiatory offering) or lustration performed every five years by the censor

11. a period of five years