Meanings of perform ritual in English

She is, in fact, a ritual personage using ritual objects to perform ritual acts.

The compulsion to perform ritual gestures over the dead had left him; he seemed to have grown beyond superstition.

Another said the board would have been forced to perform ritual disembowelment had they lived in Japan's feudal era of samurai warriors.

They have stressed that no-one will be allowed to perform ritual ceremonies, and imposed strict regulations on how funerals will be conducted.

The people prayed to the gods and performed rituals, but nothing changed.

The law imposes censorship on religious literature and restricts performing rituals to state-approved venues.

People don't know women Shinto priests exist, so they think we can't perform rituals.

They will drink wine from ornate goblets and perform rituals with knives and butterflies.

The new law imposes censorship on religious literature and restricts performing rituals to state-approved venues.

The only thing the phrase solitary practitioner means is that one performs ritual by oneself.

It had the feeling of performing ritual magic.

The church's lay priesthood gives men the power to perform rituals, including baptisms, confirmations or blessings.

It's as though India must perform rituals of brutal violence on the Kashmiri body to keep it tamed.

Many perform rituals using hallucinogenic drugs prepared from the bark of the virola tree to see the spirits.

Pagans did not perform rituals to bring a bountiful harvest and then sit on the couch eating potato chips.

Communication between enclaves took weeks, sometimes months, but in times of threat, they gathered in preappointed places and performed ritual magic.