purificatory

On the day of marriage, they do purificatory bath.

The bloodletting-rituals (see below) may also have had a purificatory function.

There are various kinds of purificatory rituals associated with death ceremonies.

The pollution period ends on 6th day when the mother and the child perform purificatory bath.

A purificatory feast is shared by all community members.

It ends when all male members make purificatory shaving of head and beard.

The mother and the child are allowed for purificatory bath in presence of female kins.

Achaman is purificatory and conducive to peaceful attitude of mind.

In the early morning the girls after their purificatory bath wear new garments and make food-offerings to the sun.

The defaulter is readmitted into the community after the purificatory ceremony is observed.

The purificatory preceded the thanksgiving service.

About 1 January 1653, it appears from his own account that Tany underwent another purificatory ritual.

These involve elaborate and meticulous preparatory and purificatory rites.

The word Aarat refers to the purificatory immersion of the deities of the temple in sea.

Some 42,000 victims, were enrolled in the Samchung Re-education Camp for "purificatory education".

In the case of Orestes, for example, there is the madness which led to his capture, and his deliverance by means of the purificatory rite.

At the end of the third day, a woman performs complicated ritual purificatory acts to cleanse herself of the pollution of menstrual blood.

Maarans could be purified from death pollution by the Namboodiris while they themselves were purificatory priests of the Nairs.

Purificatory measures such as fasting, sexual abstention, bathing, and (especially in the pre-Spanish past) confession generally precede major ritual events.

After the first three days she takes a purificatory bath, and then is given a complete mini-bridal trousseau by her father or, in his absence, her brother.

Men are forbidden from performing their "sixteen duties" while Women are forbidden from cooking food without having a purificatory bath in the morning.

He composed dedicatory and purificatory hymns and prose treatises, and oracular responses.

Purificatory rites are carried out before setting up the phad, which include sweeping the ground beneath the phad clean and burning incense sticks.

The 9th chapter of the Vendidad of the Avesta expounds the purificatory power of cow urine.