Practice of rituals used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
1You will then all assemble at the camp-fire for initiation ceremonies.
2After two days of slickly brutal initiation ceremonies the asteroid now belonged to him.
3Mr. Newton had ideas of his own about initiation ceremonies.
4Naming follows almost immediately after birth, while puberty and initiation ceremonies are entirely lacking.
5If girls also have the same initiation ceremonies, it is not special to boys.
6Rock festivals at that time were like biker gang initiation ceremonies of aggression and degradation.
7And police have even seized 120 plastic helmets allegedly used by the gang in initiation ceremonies.
8They joined many clubs and societies the initiation ceremonies being, in reality, a mild form of hazing.
9The rigors and rituals of initiation ceremonies at adolescence impressed the duties of sociality at that impressionable period.
10It is said he enacts the character of the Devil, with a pea-green tail, in the Mormon initiation ceremonies.
11Further initiation ceremonies are required before he can be accepted as a fellow craft mason and then a master mason.
12The initiation ceremonies, the punishments, the degradations he'd undergone for the sect -none of them prepared him for this.
13Last year in the US, four freshman students died as a direct result of hazing rituals during college fraternity initiation ceremonies.
14What's more, pagans favored barbarous initiation ceremonies, and with good reason, they were reputed to believe in reincarnation-anathemato the Church.
15This name was chosen in honour of the retired Reverend and doctor, a vocal advocate for safe circumcision during initiation ceremonies.
16They are said to be used by the blacks in their several initiation ceremonies, but what their use or significance is, is not known.
Translations for initiation ceremonies