Noun : the ritual of the dead. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a ritual dance. ,ritual laws. From Dictionary.com.
The couple then returned to the edge of the dance circle, where they were once again ritually purified with incense. From Wordnik.com. [The Huichol: more personal reminiscences] Reference
Exod. xx, 8 ff.; the term 'holy' here means set apart ritually, that is, taboo. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
At some point, the chorus was directed to lay on the floor and sing their background music while "ritually" waving bits of mistletoe in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Norma on a Scorched Earth Stage] Reference
Maybe she should get the place ritually exorcised!. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
Therein, I ritually record an accounting of the past year. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Begin Again This Fall] Reference
Was he ritually insensitive or are the critics smearing him?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2007] Reference
Allied pronouncements have ritually compared Milosevic to Hitler. From Wordnik.com. [New World Disorder] Reference
The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
Almost all of it was thrown into the well intact, ritually deposited. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
They pay good money for this in New York City, to be ritually humiliated. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Joseph Lieberman to Give Keynote Address - August 16, 2000] Reference
For the ritually uncircumcised - Chevra Kadisha deal only with dead bodies. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His music is already played routinely, almost ritually on Israeli radio stations. From Wordnik.com. [Dahlia Scheindlin: The Holy and the Broken] Reference
It must satisfy both conditions to qualify as kosher, that is, ritually fit to eat. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet]
Every year she applied for a visa and ritually the application would be turned down. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11 - The Second Date] Reference
Is everyone to be pidgeon-holed on these blogs to allow them to be ritually insulted?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"Is everyone to be pidgeon-holed on these blogs to allow them to be ritually insulted?". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Their hair was cropped, disheveled and dusted with wood-ash, their clothing ritually torn. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Page not as a record of events, but as themes illustrative of ritually prescribed conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Han Shih Wai Chuan] Reference
They dance ritually on the north slope, tearing apart and consuming any creature they catch. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Most impressive of all, Neanderthal man was the first of our ancestors to bury his dead ritually. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
Pausing at the close, he raised his arm ritually towards the trees and rested thus a moment speechless. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Yes, it ritually denounces liberals as members of a class fundamentally alien to the American way of life. From Wordnik.com. [Red State Story] Reference
The public should be taught to understand self serving nonsense when it is ritually presented to them as fact. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Oil's Massive Price Distortion Militates the Reconvening of the 1970s Federal Oil Price Task Force] Reference
Every week millions of Brits tune in to see her ritually humiliate guests on her hit game show, "Weakest Link.". From Wordnik.com. [Hello, 'Good Bye!'] Reference
"Isn't it important for us as Jews to care that our food isn't just ritually kosher but ethically kosher, too?". From Wordnik.com. [Raid Unsettles Kosher Beliefs] Reference
Eurydike in her room took off her mourning dress and combed the soft wood-ash from her ritually disheveled hair. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
As one made ritually invisible, as well as silent, and an outcast for life, Si'Wren was lost in a world of her own. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Last week government officials began warning locals to not eat monkeys or ritually wash any relatives who die of fever. From Wordnik.com. [Gorillas In The Midst Of An Outbreak?] Reference
The purpose of the bizarre punishment was made clear by the priestess, who, as she ritually whipped the others, intoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
They all seem to spend half their time ritually torturing their dates and the other half wondering why the men don't call back. From Wordnik.com. [Review: This Show Is Just Plain Embarrassing] Reference
I was almost tempted to do just that, in order to see Akki's offerings ritually pounded into splinters, the zorans treated the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
Processions of young men in bloodstained tunics marched to the steady thump of a large drum near the shrine's main gate last week, ritually flogging themselves with chains. From Wordnik.com. ['WE ARE YOUR MARTYRS'] Reference
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