ablutionary rituals. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The ablutionary fluid is most difficult to be had in places where water is abundant. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
The ablutionary tank made by Solomon was as large as a hundred and fifty lavatories. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Most seamen, especially those of foreign nationality, have seemingly a horror of water for ablutionary purposes, in contradistinction to landsmen. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Like the other, he comes in priestly and ablutionary office. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Milly's people went through that ablutionary process known as washing their hands of her. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
The loch was a little too far from the house to be a convenient place of resort for ablutionary purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
Of all people in the world the Mexicans have the greatest antipathy to water, hot or cold, for ablutionary purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Speaking of room with bath, Maw solved the ablutionary problem for herself the other day at Old Faithful Ranger Station. From Wordnik.com. [Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone] Reference
Upon one stood a basin, in which was water that had some time ago been used for the ablutionary purposes of someone sadly in need of a wash. From Wordnik.com. [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference
More germane to the drivetrain's operation is its urea injection system, whose ablutionary powers require fresh AdBlue fluids every 12,000 to 15,000 miles - but at least that's free for four years or. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
Fire is, despite the title, the ablutionary, water segment of the alchemical work in which the color white and the purgatory effects of water are featured. the alchemy post earlier this week, will be the concluding 'red stage' of this work. From Wordnik.com. [Hogwarts Professor] Reference
"Krishna Pedestal," consists of a square base carved with scenes from the life of Krishna as recounted in the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana, upon which are mounted an ablutionary cistern and, at the very top, a lingam representative of Siva. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The editor, I understand, running a gloomy eye down the column of his contributor's 'story,' and seeing nothing but metaphysical terms such as justice, freedom, the abstract disapproval of sweating, swindling, and the like, paused at last upon the ablutionary allusion, and his eye brightened. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
Nor was he absolutely disheartened by the idea of those tonsorial, ablutionary, and personally decorative labors which are apt to become so intolerably irksome to an old gentleman, after performing them daily and daily for fifty, sixty, or seventy years, and finding them still as immitigably recurrent as at first. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
The work of Cham religious art which scholars conventionally call the "Tra Kieu Pedestal," but which might more descriptively be called the "Krishna Pedestal," consists of a square base carved with scenes from the life of Krishna as recounted in the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana, upon which are mounted an ablutionary cistern and, at the very top, a lingam representative of Siva. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
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