Definitions for ritualist

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ritualist rit·u·al·ist

Spelling: [rich-oo-uh-list]

IPA: /ˈrɪtʃ u ə lɪst/

Ritualist is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in ritualist (aiilrsttu).

Definitions for ritualist

noun

1. a student of or authority on ritual practices or religious rites.
2. a person who practices or advocates observance of ritual, as in religious services.
3. (initial capital letter) Anglican Church. a person who supports High Church principles. a supporter of the Oxford movement.

Origin of ritualist

First recorded in 1650-60; ritual + -ist

Examples for ritualist

What an answer is here to the monk, the ascetic, and the ritualist!

See how he has favoured the High Church party, and if ever he gives a clerical appointment it is always to a ritualist priest.

I never heard of any ritualist who considered any of his dearest practices in this light.

He was neither a puritan, like the Essenes, nor a ritualist, like the Pharisees.

"Never heard of a ritualist," thought Jack, with a feeling of gladness.

But the heart-stricken ritualist had swarmed up the ladder and was gone.

You are no doubt a ritualist, and your son has no doubt been educated in the same school.

The porch was a bull's head, with a procession of ritualist fools entering by the nostrils.

Fortune had handed over the parish of Harden to a ritualist vicar.

A ritualist 'priest' who comes to argue—of course, discussion will be invited—is bound to get left.