unritualadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪtʃʊəl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪtʃ(ᵿ)l/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪtjʊəl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɪtjᵿl/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɪtʃ(əw)əl/ Not used in or connected with rites; not ritual. Also: ritually forbidden.
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1791 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 80 The quiet dispassionate simplicity of unritual devotion.
1851 Ecclesiologist June 193 Design for a parish church..is an unarchitectural and unritual jumble of a cathedral and a parish church.
1903 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 157 An impassioned appeal for a new religion, a reformed Catholicism, spacious, unritual, humanitarian.
1991 R. S. Araten Jacob Sarna iii. 16 Tomatoes which ‘at home’ Jews knew only as treifene aeppelech, (unritual little apples, not to be touched).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1791- make a meal of
- make a meal on
- make a meal upon
- make a mean
- make a mental note
- make a merchandise
- make a merit of
- make a merit with
- make a mess
- make a mess of
- make a mien
- make a mill of
- make a mint
- make a mint of money
- make a miracle
- make a miration
- make a misdeal
- make a mislick
- make a mock at
- make a mock of
- make a mockery of
- make a monkey of
- make a monkey out of
- make a monopoly of
- make a moorburn