Ablution

When the minor ablution is ended, the worshipper should say, I testify that there is no god but the God, the One, which for partner hath none, and I testify that Mohammed is His servant and His apostle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The act of ablution is sympathetic magic, based as it is on the "like produces like" principle, the principle that action on the signifier (physical dirt) is, or results in, parallel action on the signified (spiritual sin). ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

It was on that fatal spot that he conferred on his son the honor of knighthood: and the ceremony was accomplished by a slight blow from each of the horsemen of the guard, and by a ridiculous and inhuman ablution from a pool of water, which was yet polluted with patrician blood. ❋ Unknown (1206)

308 Complete ablution is rendered necessary chiefly by the emission of semen either in copulation or in nocturnal pollution. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Despite how it sounds, "ablution" is ceremonial washing, not a stomach-flattening exercise. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

"Although the process is going well, it is a matter of concern that some houses are not built according to the set building norms and standards of the Department of Housing, which stipulate that all houses should be built with facilities such as ablution and sinks inside," committee chairwoman Zoliswa Fredericks-Kota wrote in a statement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The three Tibetan Buddhist lineages of the New Translation Period - Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug - divide tantra into four classes: kriya (ritual Buddha-figure practice), which emphasizes external ritual practices such as ablution, diet, and fasting; charya (behavioral Buddha-figure practice), which equally emphasizes external behavior and internal methods; yoga (integrated Buddha-figure practice), which emphasizes internal methods of yoga; anuttarayoga (peerlessly integrated Buddha-figure practice), which teaches special, more advanced methods of internal practice. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Baptism is the initial sacrament of the New Testament, by which the covenant people of God are sprinkled with water, by a minister of the church, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost -- to signify and to testify the spiritual ablution which is effected by the blood and Spirit of Christ. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)

But if anything of the sort happen after the consecration, the insect should be caught carefully and washed thoroughly, then burned, and the "ablution," together with the ashes, thrown into the sacrarium. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Inside the hut was a being of epicene gender; at least, its dress rendered sex doubtful, inasmuch as the upper parts, which first met his gaze, were, a tattered man’s hat and shirt, both marvellously out of repair, and utterly unacquainted with any kind of ablution or other purification. ❋ Unknown (2004)

_)] [Footnote 126: _charitrabandhakam. charitra_ (the mode or the subject of pledge) is defined by the Commentator to be either, moral worth, or, the merit earned by performance of religious rites, such as ablution in the Ganges, &c. ❋ W.A [Translator] Montriou (N/A)

Unlike hand washers, or skin lubricators, or ablution executors, shampooers have been known to break into song upon settling into their activity, especially if action unfolds in a shower. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

In "Shower" 2005, Mr. Bleasdale caught a boy in the tiled washroom of a center for street kids in Kinshasa with his head thrown back, exposing the white arc of his teeth in a mouth set in a grin of supernal joy, as if the water splashing off his forehead were providing not just cleansing but ablution. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

British and Commonwealth POW's were housed in an old stable, divided into two with an ablution area in the middle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the great scenes was of young Copts Christians, boys and girls, bringing water for the Muslim brothers to do their ablution, and also making a big circle—a temporary worship space—for them. ❋ Bari Weiss (2011)

Now the deacon divests himself before the Gospel of the planeta plicata and takes it back after the last ablution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Communion is done, the priest purifies his fingers in the vessel set on the altar for the purpose; there being no chalice present, he does not perform an ablution as at Mass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I made ablution for evening prayers and washed the makeup and mud off my face in the shower. ❋ Andrew Bowen (2010)