Ritual

(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' .

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• 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.

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