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ˈritually, adv.
[f. ritual a. + -ly2.]
By proper rites; in respect of ritual, etc.
1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. ix. 154 [The] solemnity of drinking out of a cup, ritually composed, deckt, and fill'd with countrey liquor. 1657Trapp Comm. Ezra vi. 20 ‘All of them were pure’—Ritually at least, if not really. 1752Warburton Serm. Wks. 1788 V. 79 The rest of the sons of Adam; who, because ritually unholy and prophane, were deemed to be naturally unrelated to them. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) IV. 291 Besides the mistletoe, the Druids ritually gathered the Selago. 1847Ecclesiologist May 200 Chancel..is ritually confined to that part of the church where the Clerici celebrate the lesser offices. 1892Bruce Apologetics ii. ii. 184 Obligations to be holy, not ritually only but really. 1914J. S. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. I. 506 The Grebe is interesting as showing all three stages of the process at one time—the passive attitude employed sometimes directly, sometimes symbolically, and sometimes ritually. 1966K. Z. Lorenz On Aggression v. 48 In our European common shelduck for example, the whole process..contains no ritually fixed parts. 1972T. R. Williams Introd. Socialization viii. 183 Some American Indian cultures such as the Hopi and Zuni, ritually observe puberty for one or for both sexes. 1978G. Wainwright in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. i. i. 37 Ritually, a novel feature of the Protestant worship was the giving of independent value to hymns in the structure of the service. |