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.
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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151. Karen is well aware that the notion of sacrificing animals in a religious ritual strikes many people as unconscionable.
152. This morning, I somewhat masochistically volunteer for a similar ritual.
153. The monks, wishing to spread the serenity of bodiless enlightenment, subjected Fortuna to their ritual surgery.
154. Each year, the doge "married" the sea in a ritual in which he threw a gold ring into the city's lagoon.
155. Deciphering the writing could provide a window into daily life or religious ritual in Jerusalem around the time of Jesus Christ (interactive time line of early Christianity).
156. Those who managed to reach Pu'uhonua were graced by Kahuna Pule following a complex redemption ritual after which they were free to return to their village and resume every day life.
157. It examines the ritual roles, contractual rights and duties and patterns of and succession and miaozhu.
158. A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) contracts its wings during a mating ritual on South Georgia Island, Antarctica.
159. Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.
160. Now the nightly ritual keeps open the sea-lane of memory between colonial past and present nationhood .
161. This kiss is also performed by numerous Pacific Islander cultures, including the Maori of New Zealand, where it is a ritual greeting.
162. Along with the performances, there are usually a series of ritual which have special meanings to both play group and inviter.
163. After their evening ritual of giggling over a table game and reading stories, Karen sent her son outside to play until bedtime while she agonized over the checkbook.
164. Monastery Ritual:Monks remain deep in thought after an early morning prayer meeting at Drepung Monastery.
165. Its first line, connecting the main sites of the haj ritual, should be up and running by November,[www.Sentencedict.com] just in time for the greatest annual influx of pilgrims.
166. With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds.
167. Ther are two ways of looking at this. The first is that they were doing a ritual dance, but the other possibility is that the man and woman wer copulating and that he was standing behind her.
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