Noun:

சடங்கோடுகூடிய சுத்தி, சடங்கோடு கூடிய நீராடுதல்,

ablutions'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.

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.

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.

Curiously enough, the name "Sabian" was used by theMeccanidolaters to denote Mahomet himself andhisMoslem converts, apparently on account of the frequent ceremonial ablutions which formed a striking feature of the new religion.

From all this we conclude that what is poetry to us - akin to the folk-lore of water-sprites, naiads, kelpies, river-gods and water-worship in general - was to Tertullian and to the generations of believers who fashioned the baptismal rites, ablutions and beliefs of the church, nothing less than grim reality and unquestionable fact.

Some concrete examples will best illustrate the nature of such ablutions.

It was paved with large flagstones and in the centre was a beautiful kiosk or pavilion, covered with gold and raised over the reservoir of water for ablutions.

Synonyms:

lavation, washing, wash, ritual,

Antonyms:

dehumidify, dry, machine wash, handwash, dirty,