Obs. Also 6 Sc. lavachre. [ad. L. lavācrum bath, f. lavāre to wash: see LAVE v.1] A bath or font; esp. in figurative phrases descriptive of baptism, e.g., lavacre of regeneration, of salvation, after Tit. iii. 5. Vulg. lavacrum regenerationis (cf. LAVER sb.2 2).
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke, iii. 47. To consecrate and halowe the lavacre or founte of eternall salvacion.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 304. Thei war receaved in his houshold by the lavachre of spirituall regeneratioun.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 185. They were so much taken with Lavacres that some of them … would bathe themselves seven times a day.
