| Main Entry: | rite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony, tradition |
Synonyms: |
act, celebration, ceremonial, communion, custom, form, formality, liturgy, observance, occasion, ordinance, practice, procedure, ritual, sacrament, service, solemnity |
| Notes: | a rite is an established form of religious or otherwise solemn practice; a ritual is a prescribed form for carrying out the ceremonies associated with such a practice (both from Latin ritus 'ceremony') |
| Concept: | Rite. |
| Category: | 5. Religious institutions |
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-nouns
rite; ceremony, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation (spell); service, psalmody (worship)., ministration; preaching, preachment; predication, sermon, homily, lecture, discourse, pastoral., baptism, christening, chrism; circumcision; baptismal regeneration; font., confirmation; imposition of hands, laying on of hands; ordination (churchdom); excommunication., Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion; the sacrament, the holy sacrament; celebration, high celebration; missa cantata; asperges; offertory; introit; consecration; consubstantiation, transubstantiation; real presence; elements; mass; high mass, low mass, dry mass., matrimony; burial; visitation of the sick., seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion., relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, patera; eileton, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal, urceus., ritualism, ceremonialism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; ritualist, sabbatarian., holyday, feast, fast; Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; Ramadan, Ramazan; Bairam.
-verbs
perform service, do duty, minister, officiate, baptize, dip, sprinkle; confirm, lay hands on; give the sacrament, administer the sacrament; administer extreme unction; excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle., take the sacrament, receive the sacrament, attend the sacrament, partake of the sacrament, partake of communion; communicate; receive extreme unction; anele., preach, sermonize, predicate, lecture.
-adjectives
ritual, ritualistic; ceremonial; baptismal, eucharistical; paschal.
-phrases
"what art thou, thou idol ceremony?" [Henry V].
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| Main Entry: | ceremony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual; celebratory observation |
Synonyms: |
ceremonial, commemoration, custom, formality, function, liturgy, observance, ordinance, parade, rite, sacrament, service, show, solemnity, tradition |
| Main Entry: | cult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worship; form of ceremony |
Synonyms: |
admiration, ceremony, craze, creed, cultus, devotion, faddism, faith, idolization, liturgy, persuasion, religion, reverence, rite, ritual, veneration |
| Notes: | a sect is a rule defined by some doctrinal difference, a cult by allegiance to an idea or commanding personality |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual, traditional action |
Synonyms: |
attitude, canon, ceremony, character, convention, conventionalism, customariness, design, dictates, established way, etiquette, fashion, folkways, form, formality, inheritence, manner, matter of course, method, mode, mold, mores, observance, observation, pattern, performance, policy, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, rite, routine, rule, second nature, style, system, taste, type, unwritten law, unwritten rule, usage, use, vogue, way |
Antonyms: |
departure, deviation |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accepted procedure; ceremony |
Synonyms: |
behavior, by the book, by the numbers, canon, ceremonial, channels, conduct, convenance, convention, custom, decorum, done thing, etiquette, fashion, formality, habit, law, layout, manner, manners, method, mode, practice, precept, proceeding, process, propriety, protocol, regulation, rite, ritual, ropes, rule, setup, style, usage, way |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
Synonyms: |
academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
Antonyms: |
informality |
| Main Entry: | formula |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | set preparation; rule, recipe |
Synonyms: |
blueprint, canon, code, credo, creed, custom, description, direction, equation, form, formulary, maxim, method, modus operandi, precept, prescription, principle, procedure, rite, ritual, rote, rubric, specifications, theorem, way |
| Main Entry: | institute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law; custom |
Synonyms: |
convention, decree, decretum, doctrine, dogma, edict, establishment, fixture, habit, maxim, ordinance, practice, precedent, precept, prescript, principle, regulation, rite, ritual, rule, statute, tenet, tradition |
| Main Entry: | liturgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worship, ceremony |
Synonyms: |
celebration, ceremonial, form, formality, formula, observance, rite, ritual, sacrament, service, services |