Noun:

சடங்கோடுகூடிய சுத்தி, சடங்கோடு கூடிய நீராடுதல்,

ablution's Usage Examples:

The rites, met within all lands, of pouring out water or bathing in order to produce rain from heaven, differ in their significance from ablutions with water and belong to the realm of sympathetic magic.

the regulation as to ablution by rubbing with sand, where water cannot be obtained (iv.

The sick person, or his representative, after ablution, prayer and sacrifice, was made to sleep on the hide of the sacrificed animal, or at the feet of the statue of the god, while sacred rites were performed.

In ecclesiastical usage the term was given to a shallow stone basin (the French cuvette) placed near the altar in a church, with drains to take away the water used in the ablutions at the mass.

Similarly the Brahman takes care, after ablution of a person, to wipe the cathartic water off from head to feet downwards, that the malign influence may pass out through the feet.

5, Fountain for ablution.

For what is the use of that baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone ?14), and every precaution was taken on religious occasions to ensure purity by special ablutions and by cleansing the clothes.

In such moments of baffled inquiry he would leave his books, perform the requisite ablutions, then hie to the mosque, and continue in prayer till light broke on his difficulties.

"The Berbers, though Mahommedans, do not often observe the prescribed ablutions; they break their fast at Ramadan; and eat wild boar's flesh and drink fig brandy.

Chief among these vessels is the iota, or globular bowl, universally used in ceremonial ablutions.

His bristly black person, and shagged breast quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown and his bushy hair dishevelled.

A court enclosed the whole; near the porch was a laver for the ablutions of intending worshippers.

Synonyms:

lavation, washing, wash, ritual,

Antonyms:

dehumidify, dry, machine wash, handwash, dirty,