lavatura

lavatura [LL] 1 (act of) washing. ~a manuum ejus ‥ leprosus luridam cutem exuit W. Malm. GP I 76. 2 water that has been used for washing (esp. for sacred purpose). b dirty water, slops. nec vacavit a virtute ~e reliquiarum ejus pulvisculus W. Malm. GR I 49 p. 54; adolescentula ‥ jussa sompnio ~am manuum regis exquirere, curiam ingreditur Ib. II 222; de ceco per aquam ~e regis in ejus absentia sanato Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. 14 tit.; de ceco per manuum ejus ~am sanato Ailr. Ed. Conf. 762B tit.; 1296 mappulas ‥ separatim lavare, et singulo ~as in sacrarium versare Obs. Barnwell 70; ipsam manuum suarum ~am faciet infirmarius vel in igne prohici vel in sacrarium deferri Cust. Cant. 334.  b vidit fluvium ‥ rapidum ‥ in quem confluebant omnium fluxuum purgature et quarumque rerum terre lavature Eadmer V. Anselmi I 21 (cf. NLA I 56: omnium rerum terre sordes et ~e).