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Noun

 * 1) forming well, making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, reforming.
 * 2) cooking, dressing.
 * 3) preparing
 * 4) refinement, perfection, education, accomplishment.
 * 5) forming in mind, conception, idea, notion.
 * 6) impression, form.
 * 7) mould.
 * 8) impression on the mind or memory.
 * 9) the power of memory, faculty of recollection, self-reproductive quality, association.
 * 10) any faculty, capacity, instinct.
 * 11) making sacred, hallowing, consecration.
 * 12) purification, purity.
 * 13) any sanctifying or purificatory rite enjoined on the first three castes, a sacrament.
 * 14) burning on the funeral pyre, cremation.