noun
definition
A religious custom.
definition
(by extension) A prescribed behavior.
Examples of rite in a Sentence
The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it.
True, this rite was used both in East and West as early as the 4th century; it was not, however, universal.
I want us to have a day to get settled before we perform the rite.
The Schoolmen had no historical sense and little historical information; hence they fell into one error after another on the essentials in the rite of ordination.
At the present time, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, apparelled albs are only in regular use at Milan (Ambrosian Rite), and, partially, in certain churches in Spain.
Lastly, the rite of circumcision, which the Hebrews practised in common with their Semitic neighbours as well as the Egyptians, belonged to ages long anterior to the time of Moses.
They sacrifice the paschal lamb, which is probably the oldest religious rite that has been continuously kept up. In two important points they differ from later Jewish interpretation.
Among the North American Indians scalping was always in the nature of a rite.
For other areas we have often no description of the procedure at all, but merely the briefest outline of the actual process of slaughter, and we are ignorant whether the form of the rite is in reality simple (either from a loss of primitive elements or from never having advanced beyond the stage at which we find it), or whether the absence of detail is due to the inattention or lack of interest of the observer.
The final imposition of hands and the bestowal of power to forgive sins at the end of the ordination rite for priests in the Roman Pontifical is later even than the tradition of instruments.
Of these 21 are immediately subject to the Holy See, while those of the Latin rite having ecclesiastical provinces number 164.
In Asian cultures, a nose piercing is considered to be a rite of passage.
Knox, for example, did away with the imposition of hands (M`Crie's Knox, period vii.), though the rite was restored by the Scottish Presbyterian Church in the Second Book of Discipline.
In this article the history of the rite is first traced up to A.D.
In churches of the Greek rite a little of the old year's chrism is left in the jar to communicate its sanctity to that of the new.
The bottom line is that both monsters are fascinating in their own rite.
In a later and less rigorous age this rite was abridged and adjusted to constant repetition, in such wise that a sinner could be restored to grace not once only, but as often as the clergy chose to accept his repentance and confession.
A certain number of Bulgars at Kukush in Macedonia and elsewhere form a "uniate" church, which accepts the authority and dogma of Rome, but preserves the Orthodox rite and discipline.
The periodical performance of the commemorative rite of obsequies called Sraddha - i.e.
Of episcopal sees of the Latin rite 6 are suburbican sees of the cardinal bishops, 85 are immediately subject to the Holy See, and 662 are suffragan sees in ecclesiastical provinces.
What rite is this?
Of those of the Oriental rite one (Graeco-Ruthenian) is immediately subject to the Holy See; 9 are suffragan sees in ecclesiastical provinces, viz.
Exact statistics of the membership of the Churches of the Oriental rite are almost impossible to obtain; the numbers of their adherents, moreover, are apt to vary suddenly with the shifting currents of political forces in the East, for political factors have always played a considerable part in these movements towards reunion or the reverse.
Acting according to the instructions he had received from Rome, where the matter had been fully gone into, he made an investigation, and divided the clergy ordained after that period into two classes; one consisting of those ordained in schism, indeed, but according to the old Catholic rite, and the other of those who had been ordained by the new rite drawn up by Cranmer and enforced by act of parliament 1st of April 1550.
These offices are of very ancient date, and many of them were probably 2 The Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the church of York.
Does the word "rite" seem too solemn?
Perhaps less of an ancient fertility rite than previously believed.
The Stride Rite Bond shoe is the perfect elegant shoe for your little boy.
Stride Rite has been catering to the footwear needs of children for almost a century!
The ceremony of turning to the west three times with renunciation of the Evil One, then to the east, is exactly paralleled in a rite of purification by water common among the Malays and described by Skeat in his book on Malay magic. If the Malay rite is not derived through Nlahommedanism from Christianity, it is a remarkable example of how similar psychological conditions can produce almost identical rites.
There are some 150 monks, all Armenians; they use the Armenian language and rite in the liturgy.
This rite was observed by royal command at intervals of a few years; these were occasions of great rejoicing, but also of much drunkenness and licentiousness.
If Strabo and Herodotus and Pomponius Mela, for example, describe a custom, rite or strange notion in the Old World, and if mariners and missionaries find the same notion or custom or rite in Polynesia or Australia or Kamchatka, we can scarcely doubt the truth of the reports.
The first was the rite of daubing the initiated with clay.'
Mannhardt, who by comparing numerous examples of similar customs among other European peoples arrived at the conclusion that the rite was of extreme antiquity and of dramatic rather than sacrificial character, and that its object was possibly to procure rain; (2) that of Wissowa, who refuses to date it farther back than the latter half of the 3rd century B.C., and sees in it the yearly representation of an original sacrifice of twentyseven captive Greeks (taking Argei as a Latin form of 'Ap-yE701) by drowning in the Tiber.
Nearly all the aristocracy claim Venetian descent; most of the upper classes are bilingual, speaking both Greek and Italian; and a considerable section of the population are Roman Catholics of the Latin rite.
The world is becoming a more dangerous place for you, and I'd hoped we could wait until the winter solstice to perform the rite.
He's the only one who can create a vampire just by a blood exchange, instead of the normal rite new vamps go through.
No need was there of any official announcement of a State funeral or public rite of any sort.
Of particular interest were the Anglo-Saxon burials, including a number of cremations -- a rite almost unknown in east Kent.
The rally starts early Saturday morning and finishes early evening culminating in a " rite grand " party.
J. L. Weston thought it part of a pagan fertility rite, involving a story similar to that of Adonis.
Even old Grandpa got rite frisky afore de weekend wuz over.
Bray speculates that this rite may also have been performed in the Latin West but finds the evidence inconclusive.
I've got my bat mitzvah soon, which is my rite of passage.
His choreography for The Rite of Spring was to provoke even greater outrage.
Sadly, it is far from clear what the standard funerary rite was for Britain at this time.
Litanies The Penitential rite; Prayer of the Faithful; the Lamb of God.
The war provided an initiation rite for young men.
The Sarum rite was the major English rite of the Middle Ages.