Meanings of holy rite in English

The average navigator impresses the layman as a priest of some holy rite.

And when the holy rite was over, she had vanished away.

Watch her: she fishes as though it were a holy rite!

There were sacred lamps, fed with olive oil, and incense during the holy rite.

Before that holy rite was performed, the child lay exposed to all their machinations.

When the holy rite was ended, Edmund invited Edric and Elgitha to become his guests.

Unwittingly we had celebrated it with a holy rite.

That is not only no marriage, it is a blasphemous profanation of a holy rite.

It is a holy rite, sir, said I; and would be better, methinks, in a holy place.

Bless this time, my holy rite

It may be that there are some here who are not confirmed, and are not willing to offer themselves for that holy rite.

It's a holy rite that has been sacred for thousands of years and it is probably gossiped about more than it's ever been practiced.

His diet became a matter of the utmost importance; a rub-down was a holy rite, and the words of Jansen, the coach, divine gospel.

Ay, and these miscreants, who so boldly surround you, shall kneel, and be mute, as beings whose souls are touched by the holy rite.

Dr. Blackmore, who came over from his own private dwelling in Worcestershire, accompanied by his pupil, Lord Avon, vas to perform the holy rite.

Lucius is freed from his disguise, and is initiated into the holy rites.