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The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
v. t.
To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
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To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient sacrifices and rites.
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An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.
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A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
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The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
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A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
v. t.
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
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Held back; holding back; ritardando.
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Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.
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Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.
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Conformity to a pattern or rule; resemblance, consonance, or agreement; as, the uniformity of different churches in ceremonies or rites.
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A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
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By rites, or by a particular rite.
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Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; of the nature of a sacrament; sacredly or solemnly binding; as, sacramental rites or elements.
n. pl.
Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.
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A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.
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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
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Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
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A book containing the rites to be observed.
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