rite

rite
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Solemn observance
Nouns
1. rite, ceremony, ceremonial, ordinance, observance, celebration, duty, form, function, office, solemnity, sacrament; service. See religion, worship, ostentation.
2. (religious teaching) ministration, preaching, sermon, homily, preachment. See teaching.
3. (church sacraments) seven sacraments: baptism, christening, immersion; confirmation, laying on of hands; Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion, consecration, transubstantiation, consubstantiation, Mass; penance, atonement, repentance, confession; extreme unction, last rites; holy orders, ordination; matrimony, marriage.
4. (church rites) canonization, transfiguration, telling of beads, processional, purification, incense, holy water, aspersion, offertory, burial, excommunication; ablution, absolution, benediction, blessing, benison, confession, consecration, faith healing, lustration, oblation.
5. (religious objects) relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, rood, chrys[o]m, chalice, Eucharistic cup, aspergillum, aspersorium, chrism, chrisom, ciborium, crosier, stoup; shofar, tefillin, yarmulke, phylactery.
6. (service materials) ritual, rubric, canon, ordinal, liturgy, prayer book, Book of Common Prayer, litany, lectionary, missal, breviary, Mass book; psalter, hymn book, hymnal, psalmody, chant.
7. ritualism, ceremonialism, Sabbatarianism; ritualist, Sabbatarian.
8. holy day, feast, fast, Sabbath, Passover (see regularity).
9. (magic rites) incantation, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, black art, cabala, calling up of spirits, haruspication, idolatry, levitation, mysteries, spirit rapping or writing, sun dance.
Verbs — perform service, celebrate [the mass], minister, officiate, baptize, christen, confirm, lay hands on, administer or receive the sacrament; administer or receive extreme unction, anoint, anele; preach, sermonize, lecture, deliver a sermon, homily, etc.
Adjectives — ritual, ritualistic, ceremonial, liturgical, baptismal, eucharistical, sacramental.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. ceremony, observance, service, ritual; see ceremony 2 , custom 2 , sacrament 1 .
See Synonym Study at ceremony .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
ceremony, ritual, exercise, observance, solemn act, procedure, practice, custom, formality, liturgy.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A formal act or set of acts prescribed by ritual: ceremonial, ceremony, liturgy, observance, office, ritual, service. See RITUAL.

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  • rite — [ rit ] n. m. • 1535; rit « usage, coutume » v. 1395; lat. ritus REM. La graphie rit est encore utilisée en liturgie. 1 ♦ Ensemble des cérémonies du culte en usage dans une communauté religieuse; organisation traditionnelle de ces cérémonies. ⇒… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Rite — Rite, n. [L. ritus; cf. Skr. r[=i]ti a stream, a running, way, manner, ri to flow: cf. F. rit, rite. CF. {Rivulet}.] The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rite — early 14c., from L. ritus religious observance or ceremony, custom, usage, perhaps from PIE root *re(i) to count, number (Cf. Gk. arithmos number, O.E. rim number; see READ (Cf. read)). Rite of passage (1909) is translated from Fr. rite de… …   Etymology dictionary

  • rite — ► NOUN 1) a religious or other solemn ceremony or act. 2) a body of customary observances characteristic of a Church or a part of it. ● rite of passage Cf. ↑rite of passage ORIGIN Latin ritus (religious) usage …   English terms dictionary

  • rite — [rīt] n. [ME < L ritus < IE * rēi , var. of base * ar , to join, fit > ART1, READ1, RATE1, ARITHMETIC] 1. a ceremonial or formal, solemn act, observance, or procedure in accordance with prescribed rule or custom, as in religious use …   English World dictionary

  • rite — [raıt] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: ritus] 1.) a ceremony that is always performed in the same way, usually for religious purposes →↑ritual ▪ funeral rites ▪ ancient fertility rites ▪ These traditional rites are performed only by the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • rite — [ raıt ] noun count a traditional ceremony, especially a religious one: funeral rites perform a rite: The traditional rites of homage to the emperor were performed. => LAST RITES …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • rite — rȉte ž mn [i]i[/i] zb. <N rȉta rij.> DEFINICIJA loša ili vrlo trošna odjeća [nositi/obući rite]; dronjci, otrčine, štrace …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Rite — (lat.), 1) nach feierlichem Religionsgebrauch; 2) förmlich, gehörig, gebührend; 3) der angenommenen Ordnung zu Folge, in herkömmlicher Weise …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Rite — (lat.), in gebührender, förmlicher Weise …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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