In ancient Rome the completion of the census every five years was marked by a ceremony known as the lustrum
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Use lustrum in a Sentence ... See web results for lustrum ... How long is a lustr...
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It is a time of 5 years Found on John Waynes movie... True Grit ...He said he had worked 10 lustrums...for 50 years. By Dan Tavares Fresno, Ca.
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a' &a UC,ca-r' E'Pac?ov and from a suggestion that the long -u- in ' lustrum ' might be defended by analogy with Gr. ?ucai'vco, AM,a. But the interpretation ...
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To attempt, in consultation with the Minister for Development Cooperation, to create a long-term perspective for the grants programme through which, with the support of the Minister, 25 students from Africa have come to study at Delft this year...
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Jonathan Jones: The time is ripe for Richard Long's latest ambulatory exhibition, which promises a visual richness I can't wait to see ... After a long period of fretting, I actually prayed to Poseidon for help ....... and immediately felt a sense of relief that I will never forget.
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the long, austere Pythagorean lustrum of silence; Napoleon on the deck of the “Bellerophon,” observing the drill of the English soldiers; the Egyptian doctrine that every man has two pairs of eyes; Empedocles and his shoe;
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Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in corners, and do chores, and suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord.
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Zeitgeist · Word of the day · Blog · Random word ... It consisted in washing the hands, and sometimes the whole body, in lustral or consecrated water. — The Symbolism of Freemasonry ... = F. Spanish Portuguese lustral = Italian lustrale, from Latin lustralis, from lustrum, purificatory sacrifice: see lustrum.
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