ritualizedadj.

1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Universal Hist. II. 306 Moses had coined out of it the ritualized law of that nation.

1932 M. Gabain tr. J. Piaget Moral Judgm. Child i. 16 The child handles the marbles at the dictation of his desires and motor habits. This leads to the formation of more or less ritualized schemas.

1976 R. M. Keesing Cultural Anthropol. xvii. 369/1 Ritualized combat on the traditional ‘battlefield’ gives a vivid picture of one side of tribal warfare.

1992 C. Sweet in C. Itzin Pornography (1993) x. 182 Some addictions are a ritualized part of social interaction (such as alcohol at parties, smoking behind the school shed, sharing joints).

1871 Congregational Rev. Mar. 162 The overshadowing presence and imposing sway of a ritualized religion.

1882 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 319 They entered the ritualised churches, tore down the new chancel rails.

1942 N. Tinbergen in Bibliotheca Biotheoretica 1 90 Substitute movements often have signal functions, and, doubtless in connection with these functions, may be extremely ritualised, so that they become unrecognisable when no comparative study is made.

1971 Nature 18 June 469/1 The rutting conflicts of most species [of cervid] are largely ritualized, antlers serving the function of display more than as jousting weapons.

1995 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 68 85 Territory ownership is established through ritualized aerial contests.