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Lustrum   Listen
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Lustrum  n.  (pl. E. lustrums, L. lustra)  A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.






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"Lustrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... useless as a unit to measure the periods with which that science deals, and as in astronomy the mile is useless as a standard for the interstellar spaces; so in history, in tracing the organic changes within the conscious life of a State, the lustrum, the dekaetis, or even the generation, would sometimes be a less misleading unit than the year. The England of Elizabeth drew the first outline of the Empire of the future; but five generations were to pass before the Britain of Chatham[7] could ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb

... formidable, for it was an Eastern mob, and a mob with sword and shaft, with buckler and mail—the mob by which oriental empires have been built and overthrown! There, in the splendid space that had witnessed the games and tournaments of that Arab and African chivalry—there, where for many a lustrum kings had reviewed devoted and conquering armies—assembled those desperate men; the loud winds agitating their tossing torches that struggled against ...
— Leila, Complete - The Siege of Granada • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Principles of Latin Grammar," and "the Principles of English Grammar,"—are equally pliable, or changeable; and, what is very remarkable, a comparison of different editions will show, that the fundamental doctrines of a whole "Series of Grammars, English, Latin, and Greek," may so change in a single lustrum, as to rest upon authorities altogether different. Dr. Bullions's grammars, a few years ago, like those of his great oracles, Adam, Murray, and Lennie, divided verbs into "three kinds, Active, Passive, and Neuter." Now they divide them into two only, "Transitive and Intransitive;" ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



Words linked to "Lustrum" :   Italian capital, time period, period, capital of Italy, Roma, antiquity, lustrate, Rome, Eternal City, period of time, ceremony



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