For him the special rite of the Last Supper was the washing of feet.

Chivalry, on the contrary, has never been hereditary, and a special rite has always been necessary to create a knight.

If its object be simply to inculcate a special rite, one cannot demand that it should show breadth of view or elevation of sentiment.

It is for this reason that, when boys enter any river or branch of the river for the first time, a special rite is performed.

Afterward we had to perform the special rites of a Pharaoh.

There were special rites to exchange ties if the counterpart family did not want to move and another family did.

They are praised also, in that they do not regard variety of rites as separating unity of faith, if they speak of special rites.