The solitary green things I could find actually on the bank, were some sprigs of cypress: these I gathered with due formula of Lustration; but the absit omen was spoken in vain.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
In most religious communities a minor form of Baptism accompanies all religious ceremonies, water being used as a symbol of purification, and the idea being that no man should enter upon worship until he has purified his heart and conscience, the outer washing symbolising the inner Lustration.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
It is better suited for Polifilo's Lustration by Venus Physizoe than for the mass on Easter morning.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds