Definitions for rituals

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rituals rit·u·al

Spelling: [rich-oo-uh l]

IPA: /ˈrɪtʃ u əl/

Rituals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in rituals (ailrstu).

Definitions for rituals

noun

1. an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
2. a system or collection of religious or other rites.
3. observance of set forms in public worship.
4. a book of rites or ceremonies.
5. a book containing the offices to be used by priests in administering the sacraments and for visitation of the sick, burial of the dead, etc.
6. a prescribed or established rite, ceremony, proceeding, or service:
7. prescribed, established, or ceremonial acts or features collectively, as in religious services.
8. any practice or pattern of behavior regularly performed in a set manner.
9. a prescribed code of behavior regulating social conduct, as that exemplified by the raising of one's hat or the shaking of hands in greeting.
10. Psychiatry. a specific act, as hand-washing, performed repetitively to a pathological degree, occurring as a common symptom of obsessive-compulsive neurosis.

adjective

1. of the nature of or practiced as a rite or ritual:
2. of or relating to rites or ritual:

Origin of rituals

1560-70; Latin rītuālis, equivalent to rītu-, stem of rītus rite + -ālis -al¹

Examples for rituals

Ghusul is a ritual cleansing from head to toe, in this instance performed with all the solemnity of a trip to a water park.

They lead a sort of ritual dance, that most of us have agreed to take seriously.

Followers had traveled many miles to mourn the loss, and aid in the ritual washing, dressing, and honoring of the body.

It is very remarkable, and although infallible, I never read it in any ritual.

There is no great religion in which ritual is so much, doctrine and enthusiasm so little.

What ritual did some celebrities start engaging in over the summer?

Wicca includes ceremony and ritual that serves the union of the divine with nature rather than embracing a personal god.

In this the Roman ritual is markedly different from the Greek.

The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.

Throughout the ritual of the day he could not grow accustomed to saying good-bye.