ablution

• We wandered through and into the ladies prayer room and through the main plaza to the ablution areas. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• An ablution is a washing or cleansing_; especially a religious rite 6. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
• An ablution is the act of washing away_, or cleansing 15. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
• The omission of a prayer or an ablution, the neglect of baptism or confession, a slight thrown upon a priest, a mental conception differing from the decree of the "Church," would condemn a man far more surely and deeply into the Egyptian, Hindu, Persian, Pharisaic, Papal, or Calvinistic hell than any amount of moral culpability according to the standard of natural ethics 1 See Pope's translation of the Viraf Nameh. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• Let them take a common duck, and shut it up for two or three days, so that it can have no access to water except for drinking, and at the end of that time let them turn it out, and allow it to go to a brook or pond; it will give itself a thorough ablution--ducking, diving, and splashing with its wings--and on coming out, will begin to dress and arrange its feathers, very frequently applying its bill to the gland on its rump. —  Essays in Natural History and Agriculture

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