ablutionary

• “State-of-the-art, high-tech ablutionary devices that you, being an observant VP on the rise, have already noticed are geared toward doing your business fast, with as little physical contact as humanly possible.”

  Simon & Schuster: Home Swell Home

• “Most seamen, especially those of foreign nationality, have seemingly a horror of water for ablutionary purposes, in contradistinction to landsmen.”

  Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

• “The ablutionary tank made by Solomon was as large as a hundred and fifty lavatories.”

  Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

• “The ablutionary fluid is most difficult to be had in places where water is abundant.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870

• “Milly's people went through that ablutionary process known as washing their hands of her.”

  Gigolo

• “Like the other, he comes in priestly and ablutionary office.”

  Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

• “Of all people in the world the Mexicans have the greatest antipathy to water, hot or cold, for ablutionary purposes.”

  Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains

• “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.”

  Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl

• “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.”

  What I Saw in America

• “It was his Saturday and Sunday joy to bath Jean amid a score of crawly tin insects which he had provided for the child's ablutionary entertainment, and it formed the climax of Jean's blissful day.”

  The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

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