ablutioner

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English

Etymology

From ablution +‎ -er.

Noun

ablutioner (plural ablutioners)

  1. One who performs ablution
    • 1885, W S Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., , →OCLC:
      I'm sorry for you, / You very imperfect ablutioner!
    • 2013, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, Religion in Japanese History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
      For instance, the heavenly court of Amaterasu included such figures as Ame-no-koyane, the prototype of the priest; Futo-dama, the prototype of the ablutioner; and Ame-no-uzume, the prototype of the shamanic diviner.
    • 2014, James E. Royster, Have This Mind: Supreme Happiness, Ultimate Realization, and the Four Great Religions—An Integral Adventure, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 271:
      He advises the disciple who is fortunate enough to find a true shaykh to drop everything else and “be thou with him as a corpse in the ablutioner's hands. He turneth it at will, while it passive remaineth.”