ritual1 nounritual2 adjective
ritualrit‧u‧al1 /ˈrɪtʃuəl/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After an elaborate ritual, the boys are formally accepted into the tribe.
- Set up a regular time for homework; make it a ritual.
- The ritual is performed in order to thank the Sun Goddess for the rice harvest.
- The book examines rituals for childbirth from different parts of the world.
- The Chinese surround silk with myth and ritual.
- traditional dances and rituals
- After all, in a secular age when religious rituals have lost meaning for many, the grieving still need comfort.
- As part of the ritual, everyone carries the kumquats to the table.
- But, as Marx saw long ago, free-market capitalism is quintessentially populist and inherently subversive of traditions and rituals.
- Once this incorrect impression is accepted and congealed, there is no commanding reason to disrupt the customary rituals of their existence.
- That is the effect of the ritual.
- The cremation ritual was directed mainly at inducing the spirit of the dead person to go on to the afterworld.
- The Western ritual of death was observed - the obligation to remember the most dignified image of the deceased.
- What used to be a real chase had become a ritual.
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
The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles. the daily ritual of mealtimes He went through the ritual of lighting his cigar.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
1a ceremony that is always performed in the same way, in order to mark an important religious or social occasion: The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles. the daily ritual of mealtimes He went through the ritual of lighting his cigar. initiation rituals for young boys at puberty The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.· Magic Mushrooms Used by the Aztecs in ancient rituals, magic mushrooms are a hallucinogen.· Others sculpted new statues or built temples or traveled to caves or ruins to revive ancient rituals.· So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.· Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images.· However, I know that experiencing such a unique, ancient ritual is the essence of travelling.· Subtly satirical of western gullibility towards ancient rituals and superstitions, this is several cuts above standard culture-clash fare.· The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned.
· It's an annual ritual for the National Trust, as they close down their properties for the winter break.· The formalities may have remained the same, but the political content had been largely drained from the annual rituals.· It seems to show the opéra's concluding divertissement enacting this annual ritual, led by Legrand Druide.· The annual rituals of Orange and Hibernian celebrations were of course occasions when clashes were inevitable.
· Profit warnings have become a daily ritual.· That will also help establish your telephone call as a daily ritual for connection while you are away.· Letters avoid this, which is why writing them becomes such an important part of the daily ritual.· It was a daily ritual to continue for many years.
· The elaborate rituals surrounding the preparation of the icon are not without purpose or effect.· The longer the delivery was delayed, the more elaborate became the rituals and beliefs surrounding the eventual arrival of the ship.· There are elaborate rituals of atonement to be found there.
· The Waste Land itself functions as a primitive ritual.· She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.· He was also concerned with primitive ritual as underlying developed ritual.· But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual.
· One needs to study the planning of the buildings, and sculptures and objects normally associated with religious ritual.· After all, in a secular age when religious rituals have lost meaning for many, the grieving still need comfort.· The perehera is unlike any other religious ritual in the world because its procession includes up to 100 elephants.· Our tragedy is that our calendar more and more determines just religious rituals and holidays.· It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual.· Some say they formed a complex of sites for religious rituals.· Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods.· The church's view, that marriages sanctioned by religious ritual should not be broken, is reflected in divorce laws.
· Perhaps they could substitute the girl for the goat in whatever Satanic ritual they were planning for later.· They said parents sexually abused their children as part of a satanic ritual, and that these practices were widespread.
· Both social and private rituals that celebrate night, moon, and the changing tides.· It is a social ritual, somewhat akin to a few drinks after work.
· In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual.
NOUN· What of our own, where initiation ritual does not exist?· Yet as serious as this initiation ritual is, it is also fun.
VERB· For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds.· Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.· The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals.· He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.· So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.· It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.· Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.
ancient pagan rituals the importance of religion and ritual in our lives The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles.2something that you do regularly and in the same way each timeritual of the daily ritual of mealtimes He went through the ritual of lighting his cigar.ritual1 nounritual2 adjective
ritualritual2 ●○○ adjective [only before noun] WORD ORIGINritual2
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin ritualis, from ritus; ➔ RITEEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- ritual campaign promises
- ritual prayers
- Not quirky little ritual habit-forming, like throwing a pinch of spilled salt over your shoulder, but slow suicide habit-forming.
- Other kids had histories of ritual abuse.
- Prestige was allotted according to the principles of the ritual cycle.
- Tathir, the ritual purification of the social body, requires the destruction of the first and the confinement of the second.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES initiation rituals for young boys at puberty The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1done as part of a rite or ritual: initiation rituals for young boys at puberty The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.· In particular, he denounced the accusations of child-murder and ritual abuse which became standard elements in Viennese demonology in that decade.· Other kids had histories of ritual abuse.· The subject is questioning if satanic ritual abuse is fact or fantasy.· The book is a very powerful communication on ritual abuse and its effects.· The Reachout Trust prepared a paper on how to spot symptoms of satanic ritual abuse in children.· It is not known if the original allegations of satanic ritual abuse came from this source.· They were after signs of ritual abuse.
· Other heroic figures which figure in the monthly ritual dances are equipped in the same way.· Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
· I was beginning to feel like a ritual sacrifice.· Studying economics was more a ritual sacrifice.· The livestock being killed are a ritual sacrifice to the gods of global markets.· I felt I was being dressed for ritual sacrifice and looked for bloodstains on the gloves.· All that's missing is the ritual sacrifice-the fatted calf.· When it is made the object of ritual sacrifice, its extraordinary power is made part of an orderly ritual.
ritual dances2done in a fixed and expected way, but without real meaning or sincerity: The police issued the usual ritual apology.—ritually adverb: Animals are brought in and ritually slaughtered.