Ritual
['rɪtʃʊəl] or ['rɪtʃuəl]
解释:
(noun.) stereotyped behavior.
(noun.) any customary observance or practice.
(noun.) the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies.
(adj.) of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; 'a ritual dance of Haiti'; 'sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties'- Nadine Gordimer .
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; 'ritual killing' .
黛安娜校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
(n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
(n.) Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.
(n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.
艾迪整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Ceremonial.
n. Liturgy, formulary of public worship.
安编辑
解释:
adj. consisting of or prescribing rites.—n. manner of performing divine service or a book containing it: the body of rites employed in the church: the code of ceremonies observed by an organisation as the ritual of the Freemasons.—ns. Rit′ūalism systems of rituals or prescribed forms of religion: the observance of them: the name popularly given to the great increase of ceremonial and symbolism by means of special vestments &c. in the Church of England since about 1860-65: Rit′ūalist one skilled in or devoted to a ritual: one of the party devoted to ritualism in the Church of England.—adj. Ritūalist′ic pertaining to the ritual.—adv. Rit′ūally.
霍奇编辑
例句:
- Except for the weak and the women, there remained little comfort or assurance in the sacrifices, ritual and formal devotions of the temples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I was taken to the churches on solemn occasions--days of fête and state; I was shown the Papal ritual and ceremonial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They have their invisible popes, called Art, Nature, Science, with regalia and ritual and a catechism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- These, said he, are all that I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- One condition mentioned in the Ritual would then be fulfilled. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Two steps to the west meant now that I was to go two paces down the stone-flagged passage, and this was the place indicated by the Ritual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- By the first of November this household ritual was over, and society had begun to look about and take stock of itself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- It was part of the inevitable ritual of her life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There is sometimes a ritual of laboratory instruction as well as of heathen religion. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Consider what the Ritual says: How does it run? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- There is a drawing in a Spanish cave at Cogul, near the Ebro, which is supposed to represent a later pal?olithic ritual dance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- With this faith he associated a simple ritual borrowed from the Persian Zoroastrians (the Parsees) who still survived, and survive to-day, in India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The centre of its elaborate ritual was an altar, and the essential act of worship the sacrifice, by a consecrated priest, of the mass. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There is something in its ritual I cannot receive myself, but it is the sole creed for 'Lucy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They were concerned with religious experience, of which churches and rituals are nothing but the external satisfaction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
校对:西尔玛