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Ritual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to rites; consisting of rites; as ritual service or sacrifices.

2. Prescribing rites; as the ritual law.

Ritual [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A book containing the rites to be observed, or the manner of performing divine service in a particular church, diocese or the like.

Ritual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

Ritual [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

2. Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.

3. A book containing the rites to be observed.

Ritualism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.

2. Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.

Ritualist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One skilled in the ritual.

Ritualist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

Ritualistic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.

Ritually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

By rites; or by a particular rite.

Ritually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By rites, or by a particular rite.