Definitions for ritualists

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ritualists rit·u·al·ist

Spelling: [rich-oo-uh-list]

IPA: /ˈrɪtʃ u ə lɪst/

Ritualists is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 386 anagrams from letters in ritualists (aiilrssttu).

Definitions for ritualists

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 ritualists

First recorded in 1650-60; ritual + -ist

Examples for ritualists

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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.