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What (who) is Ablution - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Ablutions; Ablutions (disambiguation); Ablution (disambiguation)
ablution
n.
Washing (especially of the body, as a religious rite), lavation, bathing, wash, purification, cleansing, baptism.
ablution
[?'blu:?(?)n]
¦ noun
1. (usu. ablutions) formal or humorous an act of washing.
a ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers.
2. (ablutions) Brit. (in army slang) a room with washing places and toilets.
Derivatives
ablutionary adjective
Origin
ME: from L. ablutio(n-), from abluere, from ab- 'away' + luere 'wash'.
Ablution
·noun The water used in cleansing.
II. Ablution ·noun The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
III. Ablution ·noun A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
Wikipedia
Ablution
Ablution is the act of washing oneself. It may refer to:
- Ablution as hygiene
- Ablution as ritual purification
- Ablution in Islam:
- Wudu, daily wash
- Ghusl, bathing ablution
- Tayammum, waterless ablution
- Ablution in Christianity
- Ritual washing in Judaism
- Ritual purification in Mandaeism
- Rishama, daily ablution of face and limbs
- Tamasha, full body purification
- Masbuta, ritual immersion baptism purification
- Misogi, in Shinto
- Ablution in Islam:
- Absolution, the washing away of sin
Examples of use of Ablution
1. Otherwise, the grand ablution on its own, which means washing one’s head and body, incorporates the ordinary ablution.
2. He performed his ablution and poured over me some of the water that he had for ablution.
3. Is it appropriate to perform ablution just before Maghrib, pray and have a meal, then pray Isha without performing a fresh ablution?
4. Any person can offer as many prayers as he wishes with one ablution, provided he does not invalidate it by any of the ways that invalidate ablution.
5. On the occasion when he told his companions to perform ablution after eating camel meat, he might have realized that someone had invalidated his ablution by discharging wind.