Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to ablution.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to ablution.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands

Etymologies

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ablution +‎ -ary

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Examples

  • State-of-the-art, high-tech ablutionary devices that you, being an observant VP on the rise, have already noticed are geared toward doing your business fast, with as little physical contact as humanly possible.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • State-of-the-art, high-tech ablutionary devices that you, being an observant VP on the rise, have already noticed are geared toward doing your business fast, with as little physical contact as humanly possible.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • State-of-the-art, high-tech ablutionary devices that you, being an observant VP on the rise, have already noticed are geared toward doing your business fast, with as little physical contact as humanly possible.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • Most seamen, especially those of foreign nationality, have seemingly a horror of water for ablutionary purposes, in contradistinction to landsmen.

    Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

  • The ablutionary tank made by Solomon was as large as a hundred and fifty lavatories.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • The ablutionary fluid is most difficult to be had in places where water is abundant.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 Various

  • Milly's people went through that ablutionary process known as washing their hands of her.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • Like the other, he comes in priestly and ablutionary office.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • Of all people in the world the Mexicans have the greatest antipathy to water, hot or cold, for ablutionary purposes.

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • Upon one stood a basin, in which was water that had some time ago been used for the ablutionary purposes of someone sadly in need of a wash.

    Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

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