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ritual Noun

— A ritual is a ceremony that always follows the same steps. The annual ritual to honour the gods was tomorrow.

ritual Adjective

— Something that is ritual is related to a ritual or rite.

ritual

— noun any customary observance or practice — noun the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies — adjective of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals a ritual dance of Haiti sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties — Nadine Gordimer — adjective of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals ritual killing — noun stereotyped behavior

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ritual English » English

rite ceremony ceremonial formal custom rites service ritualistic festival worship tradition religious service practice observance celebration woman utilization utilisation use usance usage stately solemnity settled secret ceremony scars sanctum sanctorum sacrificial sacral rubric ritualism ritual bath rite of passage religious observance proceedings procedure preceptive party ordinance official master liturgy laying down a rule habit function formulary formality form fixed festivity

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Simple sentences

The young witch was casting a spell, when Tom rushed towards her, grabbed her, and interrupted the ritual with a passionate kiss on her mouth.

I have to go through my bedtime ritual.

Movie subtitles

And if I am not mistaken, he intends you to play a part in that ritual.

Seems those people up at the houmfort. won't stop drumming and dancing till they've gotten Jessica back. and finished their ritual tests, something of that sort.

The next day, at setting of the sun. the symbols of Kali were taken to the water. in final ritual.

I thought I knew every ritual in the Apache book.

It's a sort of pagan ritual, a ceremonial dance where the faithful sit around sipping tea and worshipping clothes.

A white person can't join in the ritual.

It was a sacred ritual of ancient cultures.

For all eternity shall I practise the ritual of Black Mass.

For a moment there, you seemed to be performing some sacred ritual.!

Yes.it WAS a ritual!

The ritual began in this courtroom. swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease.

It was a sacrificial ritual. in which Feldenstein, the Jew, was the helpless victim.

But, Counselor, the ritual cannot take place without a second.

I will now proceed with the ritual.

I think you'd sacrifice your best friend without a moment's hesitation if he interrupted the sacred ritual of your self-centered, paltry little life.

Early in the morning the timber drum summons the monks for their ritual daily work.

According to ritual at New Year's, we also set up a pavilion, and here, in the open, we invite government representatives for an Asian-style feast.

Before Chaang, the traditional New Year's beer is drunk, the ritual demands us to offer our drinks to the spirits of the region.

She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.

Ritual?

Musgrave ritual, they call it.

And perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.

You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.

Only to talk about the ritual, sir.

The old ritual, there it is again.

Watson, we've got to find that ritual.

There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.

I wouldn't interfere with your little ritual for the world.

It's an elaborate ritual.

The ritual began in this courtroom, swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease! What was going to be a passing phase had become the way of life.

It was a sacrificial ritual, and Feldenstein the Jew was the helpless victim.

Agostino obeyed, and was as proud as someone. whom has been allowed to participate in a ritual.

How often do you go through this little ritual?

The young sovereign is presented to the archbishop of Canterbury who asks her the ritual questions.

The ritual objects are very fine.

An old ritual song.

Enchanting little ritual.

I suppose some kind of, er, ritual death, I presume?

I will commit ritual of purification.

News and current affairs

The ritual witch-hunt now underway may be the only way for bosses to regain their bearings.

That does not mean forcing it to follow an unrealistic and potentially dangerous electoral ritual just because it is embedded in UN regulations.

The US administration also typically sends the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State to deliver a ritual speech reassuring the Europeans of the strength of the transatlantic alliance.

At the edge of death, but still clinging to life, Diego Maradona seems these days both priest and victim of a tragic Argentine ritual.

So tragic a ritual can have no good end.

Argentina's trial of the generals was a successful ritual in the painstaking transition from military junta to democracy, but the experience ended with weeping self-doubt.

Here on the Upper West Side, in the middle of a triangle formed by Central Park, Lincoln Center, and the Hudson River, I was once in the habit of beginning each day with an exotic act of devotion, a ritual of humility.

As policymakers gather in Washington for their ritual conversations this week, they should not lose sight of that key distinction.

The Judeo-Christian custom of burial is rapidly being replaced - not by the ritual of an Indian pyre, but by a crematorium, i.e., the destruction of a corpse by means of high-temperature machines, a procedure from which the public is excluded.

The oldest distinction of homo sapiens - ritual burial of the dead - is disappearing.

The proximity of Christmas will provide the ritual with a religious patina.

As icon, myth, and ritual, the Nobel Prize is well secured.

Democracy is increasingly seen as a mere ritual.

Since such feelings cannot simply be wished away, it is better to allow for their ritual expression, just as fears of death, violence, and decay find expression in religion or bull fighting.

Their courtship ritual revolves around loyalty cards: he pulls out his American Airlines Executive Platinum card; she matches.

As soon as the Saudi royal family seized the city, the new rulers destroyed the Shia and Sufi shrines that might have undermined their sought-after monopoly over the ritual aspects of the pilgrimage.

Farmers, the single largest occupational group in most castes, with ritual rank ranging from high to low, were highly differentiated in terms of size and economic status.

In many castes of low ritual rank, landlords, prosperous cultivators and traders were found, some of whom actually paid income tax.

The most obvious fact in the data is the great disparity in the economic positions of castes sharing the same ritual rank.

In fact, the whole population of the lower castes did not suffer from an equal degree of ritual handicap.

Sometimes, well-off sections of low castes broke away to form new castes and managed to achieve higher ritual status.

Usually a prosperous caste succeeded in raising its rank in the ritual hierarchy.

Most other cultivating and artisan castes, enjoying similar ritual ranks as the financially more successful group, occupied much lower economic positions, which resulted in an amazing degree of heterogeneity among backward castes.

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