The cup was occasionally used as a chalice for communion wine, and figured in the coronation of the French monarch, at which, according to S. G. Millet as quoted by Conway, the queens took "ablution from this chalice, after holy communion".
You complete your ablutions, take a deep breath and face the music.
We were allowed to offer prayers and make ablutions.
At the call to prayer, trousers were rolled up, ablutions taken and the genuflecting began all organised by the Hizmet, which holds similar events in Africa and Asia.
Water was boiled on the gas stove and poured in big pots into the kitchen bathtub, where my two sons, students at P.S. 19, and I took our biweekly ablutions.
There is no paving, scant electricity and so little lighting, no sanitation; people have to pay even to use the rare communal lavatories that often overflow or to take a shower, so their ablutions often take place on sidewalks riven with makeshift drains.
The museum's hard, chiseled forms take their inspiration from the ablution fountain of Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo, as well as from fortresses built in Tunisia in the eighth and ninth centuries — simple stone structures strong enough to hold their own in the barrenness of the desert landscape.
All the couple's arguments about Blanche and her parlous situation happen no more than a yard away from where she's making her ablutions; it takes a powerful suspension of disbelief to imagine that she can't hear everything that's being said.
All it would take is embedding a voice chip in the towels so that when you enter the bathroom to perform your daily ablutions, the towels would say, "Have you lost weight?
There is a hint of ritual in these ablution scenes, and a note of classical justice in the mother's verdict on the evildoers: "In the afterlife, their victims will take revenge".
Nevertheless, because all patients were Muslim, they routinely performed ritual ablution, which involves taking water into the nostrils.
