ab·lu·tion /əˈbluʃən/ 名詞
 洗身, 洗禮, 齋戒沐浴


 ab·lu·tion /əˈbluʃən/ 名詞
 清洗, 洗滌, 洗淨


 Ab·lu·tion n.
 1. The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
 2. The water used in cleansing. “Cast the ablutions in the main.”
 3. R. C. Ch. 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.

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 ablution
      n : the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels


 Ablution
    or washing, was practised, (1.) When a person was initiated into
    a higher state: e.g., when Aaron and his sons were set apart to
    the priest's office, they were washed with water previous to
    their investiture with the priestly robes (Lev. 8:6).

      (2.) Before the priests approached the altar of God, they were
    required, on pain of death, to wash their hands and their feet
    to cleanse them from the soil of common life (Ex. 30:17-21). To
    this practice the Psalmist alludes, Ps. 26:6.

      (3.) There were washings prescribed for the purpose of
    cleansing from positive defilement contracted by particular
    acts. Of such washings eleven different species are prescribed
    in the Levitical law (Lev. 12-15).

      (4.) A fourth class of ablutions is mentioned, by which a
    person purified or absolved himself from the guilt of some
    particular act. For example, the elders of the nearest village
    where some murder was committed were required, when the murderer
    was unknown, to wash their hands over the expiatory heifer which
    was beheaded, and in doing so to say, "Our hands have not shed
    this blood, neither have our eyes seen it" (Deut. 21:1-9). So
    also Pilate declared himself innocent of the blood of Jesus by
    washing his hands (Matt. 27:24). This act of Pilate may not,
    however, have been borrowed from the custom of the Jews. The
    same practice was common among the Greeks and Romans.

      The Pharisees carried the practice of ablution to great
    excess, thereby claiming extraordinary purity (Matt. 23:25).
    Mark (7:1-5) refers to the ceremonial ablutions. The Pharisees
    washed their hands "oft," more correctly, "with the fist" (R.V.,
    "diligently"), or as an old father, Theophylact, explains it,
    "up to the elbow." (Compare also Mark 7:4; Lev. 6:28; 11: 32-36;
    15:22) (See WASHING.)