单词 | initiation ceremony |
释义 | > as lemmasinitiation ceremony initiation ceremony n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > initiatory > [noun] initiatory1675 Upanayana1817 Yeibichai1887 initiation ceremony1899 1899 W. B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Native Tribes Central Austral. vii. 212 All Australian natives, with rare exceptions, have to pass through some initiation ceremony before being admitted to the secrets of the tribe. 1935 B. Malinowski Coral Gardens II. vi. 234 The instruction may take place in the course of initiation ceremonies. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization ii. 47 Economic, ritual, and recreational affairs..are often difficult to disentangle within a complex institutional sequence of events, such as an initiation ceremony. < as lemmas |
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