lustrum

The time when the lustrum took place has been calculated.

Two censors were elected for a period of five years, the lustrum.

Usually they could not get on together and were prone to resign long before their lustrum was ended.

"Before you finish your poem and people find out about it, a lustrum will pass, maybe more.

Currently the 11 lustrum board is leading the association.

The term is taken from the Roman lustrum purification rituals.

Censorial activity was, however, mostly limited to the first eighteen months of the lustrum.

In 2007 the association celebrated its 9th lustrum.

The two censors were relatively liberal in their lustrum and degraded none.

A follow-up, Lustrum, appeared in 2009, and a third is due next year.)

Such a celebration is called a Lustrum.

The second novel, Lustrum, was published in October 2009.

As this purification took place only once in five years, the word lustrum was also used to designate the time between two lustra.

In these cases, the lustrum was not performed because of some great calamities that had befallen the republic.

In 2010, Vindicat celebrated its 195th anniversary with its 39th lustrum festival.

It was full of jottings anent people, places, and things that he had come across in the preceding lustrum.

Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.

As the coincidence, however, was not perfect, a month of 24 days was interposed in every eleventh lustrum.

However, Triton was allowed to organise the Varsity in 1941 as part of their lustrum.

Both censors appeared to have resigned, however, before completing the lustrum (the ritual cleansing of the Senate).

Portugal, published by Lustrum Press in 1971.

The word comes from the Latin lustrum, "a purifying sacrifice," which was carried out every five years in imperial Rome.

And once each lustrum it was not just students who converged on it, but sightseers, merchants, news-collectors.

A lustrum (plural lustra) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome.

The census might take place without the lustrum, and indeed two cases of this kind are recorded, in B.C. 459 and 214.