RITUALISM
\ɹˈɪt͡ʃuːəlˌɪzəm], \ɹˈɪtʃuːəlˌɪzəm], \ɹ_ˈɪ_tʃ_uː_ə_l_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of RITUALISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A system of prescribed forms of religion; strict observance of forms in church service.
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Ritualist.
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Ritualistic.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ritualist.
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Ritualistic.
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Strenuous insistence up on ritual.
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Ritualistically.
By James Champlin Fernald
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System of rituals or prescribed forms of religion: the observance of them: the name given to the great increase of ceremonial in religious worship which has taken place in a large section of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
By Daniel Lyons
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System of rituals; observance of ritual.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The system of ritual or prescribed forms of religious worship; the observance of these; a more than usual respect for and observance of ritual or religious forms.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Observance of prescribed foms in religions services; excessive or prominent observance of forms; sometimes opposed to spiritual worship.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
