ablution is part of many religious rites. From LearnThat.org.
Despite how it sounds, "ablution" is ceremonial washing, not a stomach-flattening exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Table: Baby Got Beard] Reference
This cool ablution had indeed relieved the patient. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Latrines and ablution places were kept scrupulously clean. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
Why is cold water better than warm, for our daily ablution?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
How often should the ablution of the entire body be performed?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Noborinosuké laughed outright, and submitted to the ablution. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Wazú is an ablution made before saying the appointed prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
The court is well proportioned and contains an artistic fountain for ablution. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
He used to perform his ablution in the bathroom, in a very serious, solemn manner. From Wordnik.com. [Houshang Asadi: Sharing a Prison Cell with the (Future) Ayatollah] Reference
Tradition without first performing a legal ablution, and repeating two rak'at prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Hence, the importance of absolute cleanliness and a frequent ablution of the entire body. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The best method of keeping the skin clean and healthy, by ablution and baths, may here be alluded to. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Ghusl is an ablution of the whole body after certain legal defilements, and should be made as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
He went without further ablution or changing his clothes; both these patients died with puerperal fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Christian's mistresses were wont to revel with their royal lord, after ablution in a bath close at hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
But where these are not, the tin or the India-rubber bath tub serves as well the purpose of our first ablution. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
If the fever and heat are very moderate, the first days an ablution of the body with cool water (say 70°), twice. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
Water is poured over our hands; the tables are spread; we sup and, after ablution, we now offer libations to the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Even the morning ablution was comfortless and distressing; a pocket-handkerchief serving but indifferently for a towel. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
I went there to perform my ablution and beheld the infant lying in the solitude of the wilderness surrounded by vultures. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Your men have no rifle racks, more ablution benches must be provided and the sanitary arrangements made up to date .... '. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
This refusal to engage in normal household ablution led to the itty-bitty things — dust, paper, bits of food, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Husbands] Reference
Or will I sit like one homogenous lump of bio mass and water and not want to do anything even remotely resembling ablution. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving] Reference
These meals occur twice daily, -- at ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, -- and are terminated by another ablution. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Feeling no inconvenience from his ablution, and drinking a cup of hot coffee, he related the circumstances as detailed above. From Wordnik.com. [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference
The ablution is performed by means of strong application with the hands, dipped into the water, and is repeated several times. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
Young women with families often don't have the time to worship, especially given the lengthy ablution rituals several times a day. From Wordnik.com. [Female Imams Blaze Trail Amid China's Muslims] Reference
Obj. 3: Further, sacraments of the New Law, as having matter, are perfected by the use of the matter, as Baptism is by ablution, and. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
A more frequent ablution seemed to over-stimulate the excretory functions of the skin, so that excessive bathing defeated its very object. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
This ablution had partly dispelled his drunkenness; he looked at us for a moment, then he turned to Genevieve, and his face brightened up. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
From the earliest historic times the necessity for frequent and thorough ablution has been recognized by artificial provisions for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
With a quick movement of disgust, she rushed to the water-basin and washed her lips and her hands; but she felt that the stain was one no ablution could remove. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
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