Established, ceremonial, usually religious, act.
An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
Any customary observance or practice.
1 The young men stay at home, waiting for the morning's initiation rite .
2 The note of permanency in the chronic rite of disinheritance was startling.
3 The rite is an acted parable; the parable is a spoken rite .
4 Evelyn grew more interested; the rite was full of a penetrating mystery.
5 The exchange of that promise is the central focus of the rite .
6 Making a maiden speech is a rite of passage for new MPs.
7 The annual rite of spring known as March Madness commences Thursday afternoon.
8 The rite of confirmation is closely connected with the baptism of children.
9 The rite aims both at pleasing and at coercing the mythical snake.
10 Wrecking is seen as almost a rite of passage of Onewheel ownership.
11 In a letter to Dr. Ryland he thus describes the horrid rite : -
12 The Master said, Thou lovest the sheep, Tz'u: I love the rite .
13 We are just returned from the solemnization of the last mournful rite .
14 There was a double process in the cleansing rite , restoring to each.
15 I've finally completed a cultural rite of passage: I watched Star Wars.
16 Was she planning to use him in some kind of cultish rite ?
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