( n. )
A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
( n. )
A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012