All rite synonyms
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R r noun rite
- ceremonial — Something that is ceremonial relates to a ceremony or is used in a ceremony.
- deification — If you talk about the deification of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all.
- ceremony — A ceremony is a formal event such as a wedding.
- baptism — A baptism is a Christian ceremony in which a person is baptized. Compare christening.
- cult — A cult is a fairly small religious group, especially one which is considered strange.
- conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
- culti — a cult.
- custom — A custom is an activity, a way of behaving, or an event which is usual or traditional in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- convenance — suitable behaviour; propriety
- academism — academicism.
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- christening — A christening is a Christian ceremony in which a baby is made a member of the Christian church and is officially given his or her name. Compare baptism.
- worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- formula — a set form of words, as for stating or declaring something definitely or authoritatively, for indicating procedure to be followed, or for prescribed use on some ceremonial occasion.
- formulary — a collection or system of formulas.
- officialism — excessive attention to official regulations and routines.
- conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- cultus — a cult, esp. a religious cult
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- folkway — A custom or belief common to members of a society or culture.
- faddism — a person following a fad or given to fads, as one who seeks and adheres briefly to a passing variety of unusual diets, beliefs, etc.
- conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
- institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- liturgy — a form of public worship; ritual.
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici