riterite /raɪt/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
funeral rites ancient fertility rites These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.2rite of passage a special ceremony or action that is a sign of a new stage in someone’s life, especially when a boy starts to become a man3last rites final prayers or religious ceremonies for someone who is dying: A priest came to give him the last rites.
WORD ORIGINrite
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin ritusEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A cleansing rite was performed before building started.
- A priest was called to perform last rites for the dying woman.
- Buddhist rites
- The Batak chieftains perform the traditional initiation rite.
- The body cannot be buried until the funeral rites have been performed.
- And we find the same thought expressed in the final instructions delivered to the departed in the Ainu rites of burial.
- Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.
- One of these couldn't read or rite.
- Perhaps the technicians who control the mast are descendants of the shamans who presided over religious rites here.
- These rites mark the cycle of life - birth, puberty, marriage, death.
- They are shunned in any auspicious rites, especially marriage.
- This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite.
Longman Language Activatora special event that is part of a tradition
a special formal event which is part of the religious or social tradition of a place, and in which there is a fixed set of words and actions: wedding/funeral etc ceremony: · After the wedding ceremony we went to a reception at the bride's parents' house.hold a ceremony (=have a ceremony): · A ceremony is held every year to remember those who died in the war.attend a ceremony: · Over 2,000 people attended the official opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
ceremonial clothes, objects, and activities are used in important religious or social ceremonies: · The Queen was in full ceremonial dress for the state opening of Parliament.· His right hand rested on his ceremonial sword.· The full costume is only worn on important ceremonial occasions.
a set of words and actions that are always done in the same way, for example as part of a religious ceremony: · The book examines rituals for childbirth from different parts of the world.· After an elaborate ritual, the boys are formally accepted into the tribe.perform a ritual: · The ritual is performed in order to thank the Sun Goddess for the rice harvest.
a special action that is done as part of an important religious or social ceremony, especially one that only particular people, for example priests, are allowed to perform: · Buddhist ritesperform a rite: · The Batak chieftains perform the traditional initiation rite.last rites (=final prayers and ceremonies for someone who is dying): · A priest was called to perform last rites for the dying woman.funeral rites: · The body cannot be buried until the funeral rites have been performed.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village. A priest came to give him the last rites.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES initiation rituals for young boys at puberty The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village. A priest came to give him the last rites. initiation rituals for young boys at puberty The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.· I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites.· They cling to their religion, its strict kosher rules and ancient rites of worship.· Here, perhaps, within living memory, the ancient rites were enacted and may yet be again.· Whitewater led to Paula, who led to Monica, who led to the ancient rite of impeachment.
· The presence of stone objects suggested that the site might have been used for religious rites.· What is difficult for Westerners to grasp is the importance and real meaning of these religious rites.· There may be special religious rites to be observed.· Under these circumstances it would not do to conduct religious rites at approximately the same time each year.· Perhaps the technicians who control the mast are descendants of the shamans who presided over religious rites here.· And that, I would say, is what we, in our own religious rites, had best be doing too.· In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.· Often the toga was drawn over his head to make a veil, worn at the performance of religious rites.
· This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite, which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup.· This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite.
· I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites.· But Latinus, locked in his palace, was not available for the sacred rite.· Still others, who are initiated by those making a craft of sacred rites, are worthy of astonishment and pity.· He had been sent on to bid her make all ready for the sacred rites.
NOUN· Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite.· Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites.· She is an accomplished mage and oversees all the complex fertility rites of Avelorn and Ulthuan.· In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual.
· The Cocopa and the Hopi respectively exemplify extremes of emphasis and of de-emphasis in the observance of funeral rites.· The question then arises: what purpose do Hopi funeral rites serve?
· This will be a new experience for Mr Major, the last and hardest of his political initiation rites.· Spirit baptism was not just an initiation rite, it was a mystical encounter.· His appearance is essential to the tribes' fertility, and he is petitioned in initiation rites for young boys at puberty.· Hence, the recourse to alcohol or other drugs, which is commonly featured in initiation rites around the world.· Your initiation rites do not conceal your destitution.· Lois was tempted to ask the young man if he thought she had undergone an initiation rite.
VERB· So he did what he has become accustomed to doing - gave the last rites.· But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.· Both were given last rites before being taken into the operating room.
· They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden, and perform the rites of the perception of beauty.· I imagined a sorceress inside performing her rites behind the window, with a red kerchief.· Upstream and downstream, and on the far bank other villages were performing the same rites.· She spoke for me: No one performed the proper rites of the dead.· Finally, they perform rites to obtain children, preferably male, and for the safety and health of their children.· Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.· Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite.
· The presence of stone objects suggested that the site might have been used for religious rites.· Some accounts say the gallae stored them in underground chambers to be used in mystery rites.· Problems have arisen because of the belief that none of the well-known and loved musical settings could be used in the new rites.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a ceremony that is always performed in the same way, usually for religious purposes: - A rite of passage, as it were.
- After the umpteenth rubber-stamp this infuriating rite of passage, as it were, terminates: exit.
- Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.
- Finishing the race is the rite of passage of the distance runner.
- For many fans, metal, with its pile-driving sound and locker-room lyrics, is more than a rite of passage.
- Marriage, though not the social imperative it once was, still stands for a major rite of passage into adult life.
- One lucky trainee was spared the rite of passage.
- This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.
- Both were given last rites before being taken into the operating room.
- But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.
- It might as well have been the last rites.
- So he did what he has become accustomed to doing - gave the last rites.
- The Steelers were one Hail Mary away from last rites.
- They will have nothing to do with Catholic baptisms, marriages, or last rites.
- When a priest arrived to administer the last rites, Mansell sent him away.
- Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it doesn't warrant the last rites just yet.
funeral rites ancient fertility rites These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.2rite of passage a special ceremony or action that is a sign of a new stage in someone’s life, especially when a boy starts to become a man3last rites final prayers or religious ceremonies for someone who is dying: A priest came to give him the last rites.