noun
definition
Rite; a repeated set of actions
example
They carried out the ritual carefully.
adjective
definition
Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
example
They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.
Examples of ritual in a Sentence
It had an absurd ritual and a strange uniform.
It was a ritual they had been performing morning and night for the past two weeks.
Bedtime began with their ritual of sitting on the window seat in each other's arms, watching their farm in the growing darkness.
The sacrificial ritual recognizes two kinds of srauta sacrifices, viz.
Where the ritual, as in most cases, is a revival of pre-Reformation.
The ritual of worship was peculiar, not admitting bloody sacrifices.
It was a weekly summer ritual for one or the other, but seldom both; they enjoyed stocking up on local-grown produce.
The ritual books of our Pentateuch were not then in existence, and the sacrificial cult might be treated with contempt as not authoritative.
They dealt with such subjects as the origin of the gods, the creation of the world, the ritual of purification and initiation, and oracular responses.
In advanced religion, indeed, prayer is the chosen vehicle of the free spirit of worship. Its mechanism is not unduly rigid, and it is largely autonomous, being rid of subservience to other ritual factors.
A distinct feature of this ritual was wµocbayta (eating the flesh of the victim raw), whereby the communicants imagined that they consumed and assimilated the god represented by the victim, and thus became filled with the divine ecstasy.
Of the Albanians in Sicily the great majority (4479 1) remain faithful to the Greek Church; in Italy 116,482 follow the Latin ritual, and 38,192 the Greek.
It was a sure sign he was forgiven for his irreverent try at changing the age-old ritual of greeting card purchasing.
And the Directory of Public Worship has shaped and coloured, perhaps too thoroughly, the ritual and atmosphere of every group of Protestant Anglo-Saxon worshippers throughout the world, except Episcopalians.
Paul encouraged missions, confirmed many new congregations and brotherhoods, authorized a new version of the Ritual, and canonized Carlo Borromeo.
Certain peculiarities introduced by St Ambrose distinguish the ritual of Milan from that of the general church.
It was an elaborate ritual.
In one point, however, - the attitude toward the ritual - the two men differ radically.
In like manner the special ritual at the temple prescribed for the Sabbath by the Pentateuchal law was not regarded as any part of the hallowing of the sacred day; on the contrary, the rule was that, in this regard, "Sabbath was not kept in the sanctuary."
He or his school introduced innumerable ritual customs, some of them beautiful enough.
He began his ritual of locking up and putting out a bowl of canned cat food for Mrs. Lincoln, who came on the run at the sound of the refrigerator door.
In England at the Reformation the alb went out of use with the other "Mass vestments," and remained out of use in the Church of England until the ritual revival of the 19th century.
He is, however, much more than a ritual reformer.
In more primitive ritual, however, set forms of prayer are the rule, and their function is mainly to accompany and support a ceremony the nerve of which consists in action rather than speech.
Ritual flagellation existed among the Jews, and, according to Buxtorf (Synagoga judaica, Basel, 1603), was one of the ceremonies of the day of the Great Pardon.
His ritual and mysteries (Sacra Savadia) gained a firm footing in Rome during the 2nd century A.D., although as early as 139 B.C. the first Jews who settled in the capital were expelled by virtue of a law which proscribed the propagation of the cult of Jupiter Sabazius.
Readers will recognize that some of the lectures are far too long to form part of a ritual initiation.
No prehistoric funerary and ritual monuments have been recorded in the Levels.
You, O Lord, have come into our time To lift the life of faith above ritual observance.
For a time I was very observant, watching the coffin lowered, hearing the words of the ritual.
This was a ritual washing of hands prior to a meal.
Back then, human life was a daily ritual of survival.
A tarot reader may wish to perform a cleansing ritual between readings and before the first use of a new deck.
From this time forward the new moons, which till then had been at least as important as the Sabbath and were celebrated by sacrificial feasts as occasions of religious gladness, fall into insignificance, except in the conservative temple ritual.
No general survey of sacrificial ritual is possible here, but a.
This ancient instrument was extensively used by the priests in the temple of Isis to attract the attention of worshippers to different parts of the ritual.
The walls of the throne room show frescoes with sacred griffins confronting each other in a Nile landscape, and a small bath chamber - perhaps of ritual use - is attached.
The ritual of the dead is most frequently the subject.
The ritual law was substantially completed.
It is natural that little should be said of so obvious a practice until the fuller development of ritual in a later age.
The ritual of the mass remained unchanged until the death of Henry VIII.
He, too, travelling as a Moslem pilgrim, noted the whole ritual of the pilgrimage with the same keen observation as Burckhardt, and while amplifying somewhat the latter's description of Medina, confirms the accuracy of his work there and at Mecca in almost every detail.
As his share in the controversy, Martineau published five discourses, in which he discussed " the Bible as the great autobiography of human nature from its infancy to its perfection," " the Deity of Christ," " Vicarious Redemption," " Evil," and " Christianity without Priest and without Ritual."' He remained to the end a keen and vigilant apologist of the school in which he had been nursed.
The germs of an indigenous literature had existed at an early period in Rome and in the country districts of Italy, and they have an importance as indicating natural wants in the Italian race, which were ultimately satisfied by regular literary forms. The art of writing was first employed in the service of the state and of religion for books of ritual, treaties with other states, the laws of the Twelve Tables and the like.
This metre was employed in ritual hymns, which seem to have assumed definite shapes out of the exclamations of a primitive priesthood engaged in a rude ceremonial dance.
In view of these conditions, the prophet's message is to reassert the true relation of Israel to Yahweh, and to call for a corresponding holiness, especially in regard to questions of ritual and of marriage.
In the cult and ritual of Rome there are enshrined many survivals from a very early form of religious thought prior to the development of the characteristic Roman attitude of mind.
In such a religion exactness of ritual must play a large part - so large, indeed, that many modern critics have been.
Place, again, as we have seen, was an essential element even in the conception of the numen, and is therefore all-important in ritual.
The ancient ritual of the Pax has become almost obsolete.