purgation

purgation
subs.
See purging.

PURGATION PURIFICATION

purgatio; purificatio (Plin. Mart. in a religious sense): lustratio (by sacrifice).

purgation: purgātio; poet. purgāmen, esp. in pl.; lustrātio: v. PURIFICATION. Or expr. by verb: with a view to the p. of the city, urbis purgandae (purgandi) causa; ad purgandam urbem, etc.: v. TO PURGE, PURIFY.