Does the Latin word "lustrum" mean a bright light, a century, or a period of five years?.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 2007] Reference

These were the twenty-sixth pair of censors since the first, the lustrum was the nineteenth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference

Then the census was made and the "lustrum" closed by Quinctius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference

In that year the census was taken, and owing to the seizure of the Capitol and the death of the consul, the "lustrum" was closed on religious grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference

The census, commenced the previous year, was completed, and the "lustrum," which was then closed, is stated to have been the tenth since the beginning of the City.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference

A lustrum is a space of five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

A census was then held, and the lustrum was closed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

At the present lustrum of your life you are, and should be, supremely indifferent to your ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genealogy: It's Not For the Living] Reference

According to Plutarch, a cat placed in a lustrum denoted the moon, illustrating the mutual symbology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

A meditative man in his sixth lustrum can be very happy with pruning-hook and shears among his young trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

"The law says that when one censor dies in office, the lustrum is at an end, and his fellow censor must resign immediately.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

The term of office of the censors at first was a lustrum or five years, but ten years later it was limited to eighteen months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

The other censor, Marcus Livius Drusus, died very suddenly three weeks ago, which brought the lustrum of the censors to an abrupt end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

Now, a decade and a lustrum later, Keller's novella of entymology, penology, psychology, and mystery has been put between hardcovers for fresh judgement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiquarian Weird Tales: New Era Publishers] Reference

The census was performed that year; it was a matter of religious scruple that the lustrum should be closed, on account of the Capitol having been taken and the consul slain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

Rich Dwelle acknowledged this lustrum 'to be his act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffolk deeds] Reference

Caroline was hard upon the lustrum when women no longer tell their age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analytical Studies] Reference

This was called "a closed lustrum," because with it the census was completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference

Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference

And yet I felt quite happy, in spite of the tenth lustrum so near at hand for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Nor had this lustrum of fierce contention wrought less upon his heart and intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians] Reference

The lustrum was closed this year by the censors, P. Cornelius Arvina and C. Marcius Rutilus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference

The death of P. Furius prevented them from completing the lustrum and M. Atilius resigned office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. III] Reference

Your present lustrum is not a fortunate one; but it has nearly expired, and better days are at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference

"Enoch Arden" might have belonged to a lustrum of centuries ago, and "The May Queen" to remote decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

I rejoin that I know not but you may have cut Blackwood -- even as a subscriber -- a whole lustrum ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference

The censor M. Claudius Marcellus, to whom the ballot gave precedence over T. Quinctius, closed the lustrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. V] Reference

Hector Garret had his girl wife at Otter, and very sunny her existence was for the lustrum of that honeymoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

The Dictator celebrated them accordingly, and made a vow that they should be repeated at the following lustrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. IV] Reference

The lustrum which saw the birth of Robert Browning, that is the third in the nineteenth century, was a remarkable one indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

To these promises and their fulfillment I shall recur in a résumé of the lustrum during which Mr. Conried was operatic consul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

Encompassed by the massy walls of this venerable academy I passed, yet not in tedium or disgust, the years of the third lustrum of my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference