Synonym: ceremony, exercise, formality, service. Similar words: actual, mutual, situation, virtual, actually, virtually, mutualism, eventually. Meaning: ['rɪtʃʊəl] n. 1. any customary observance or practice 2. the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies 3. stereotyped behavior. adj. 1. of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals 2. of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals.
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61. They were designed for ritual use and some of them were coated in gold leaf.
62. The meal, like a ritual communion, had confirmed the curious, unspoken, mutual dependence which bound them.
63. Royal parents could also use the medium to convey a dynastic message: the ritual role identified the child born to reign.
64. The deeply symbolic ritual act of treading the earth affirms the relationship of human beings to their native soil.
65. It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.
66. Since the bombing had started, the ritual checking of number seven Lyra Street had given Vi comfort.
67. I curled up in a fetal position after the Elimination Ritual and waited for sleep to come.
68. Ceremonies have been more divisive in character than any other part of ritual or theory.
69. Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
70. He and Chris tried to steer a middle course during the ritual of drinks before dinner and the meal that followed.
71. Even if the latest Catholic reforms underplay the offertory ritual, it is not of itself without meaning or challenge.
72. It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations.
73. To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.
74. Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession.
75. This ritual suggests the pagan belief in the baptism by blood rather than water as being more binding.
76. Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary, compulsion without purpose.
77. Following this ritual, she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first.
78. Such ritual brings no hope, and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful.
79. As the crowd waited outside, the macabre ritual in the prison itself approached its consummation.
80. This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream.
81. A votive candle is placed on the dozen or so tables, part of the ritual of late afternoon tea.
82. All previous elections had possessed a ritual quality with the outcome determined in advance by religious demography.
83. What remains after completion of the ritual is at once swept up and reverently dispersed.
84. It was a daily ritual to continue for many years.
85. Such were the ideas that became the motivating and constructive force in framing our ritual.
86. The less pubescent diner can cast a detached eye on this ritual from six Formica-topped tables inside the tiny deli-restaurant.
87. In the ritual legal opera only certain kinds of song can be performed; only certain persons can sing.sentencedict.com
88. Haguza comes once a year on a special holiday for which people prepare a ritual dish of rather thick couscous with milk.
89. Carol Smith has pointed to the importance of this book for the primitive ritual elements in Eliot's drama.
90. She was used to draughty spaces, soaring walls, a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter.
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