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 ritual ['ritʃuәl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 仪式, 典礼, 宗教仪式

a. 仪式的, 依仪式进行的




    ritual
    [ noun ]
    1. any customary observance or practice

    2. <noun.act>
    3. the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies

    4. <noun.act>
    5. stereotyped behavior

    6. <noun.act>
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals

    2. <adj.pert>
      ritual killing
    3. of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals

    4. <adj.pert>
      a ritual dance of Haiti
      sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties


    Ritual \Rit"u*al\, a.[L. ritualis, fr. ritus a rite: cf. F.
    rituel.]
    Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or
    sacrifices; the ritual law.


    Ritual \Rit"u*al\, n. [Cf. F. rituel.]
    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.

    1. Ms. Hoffman said liturgical abuses still occur in the archdiocese and cited Hunthausen washing a woman's feet last month in a Holy Week ritual.
    2. Last year, for example, a satanic cult was blamed for desecrating an ancient church in the suburb of Pianezza, plundering the tombs of clerics buried there centuries ago and using the bones for some macabre ritual.
    3. Hours earler, male penitents with cloth-covered faces, whipped their backs with wooden sticks tied to a lash in an annual ritual to "wash" their sins or repay God for some miracles.
    4. Trench's mistake was to remove the sadistic ritual behind flogging, with a praeposter and a college porter to assist in the bare-bottomed assault with a birch.
    5. In the good old days BC (Before Clinton), there used to be a comfortable ritual to annual US-Japanese summits.
    6. Here's a glimpse of how the Darlings' dinner time ritual has evolved: Janice Darling's variety store is nestled among the twinkling lights and garlands that festoon Main Street.
    7. But Volker says death penalty supporters will keep up their end of the ritual, too.
    8. The rare ritual of exorcism, practiced twice by the New York Archdiocese in a year, is cloaked in mystery even for those most familiar with it.
    9. Police theorize that the deaths were a ritual sacrifice to cleanse the cult.
    10. The umbrella group claims at least 250,000 members belonging to 70 church chapters that practice the peyote ritual in 23 Western states.
    11. Before word processors and personal computers, Whitlock was part of a spring ritual at Yale.
    12. Talvela, who regularly entertained foreign guests in one of his five saunas, felt the ritual was an integral part of being a Finn.
    13. A survivor described the ritual as a purification ceremony conducted with a cardboard likeness of the Virgin Mary and a rope tied with 13 knots.
    14. Mrs. Bush did not accompany her husband on the trip to Texas, an annual ritual Bush has followed for two decades.
    15. Paul Stedman Cullen, 46, was convicted in state district court Wednesday of poisoning the beloved landmark in what authorities said was an occult ritual.
    16. In what has been a yearly ritual for a decade, the Coast Guard asks the White House for $300 million to build a new icebreaker and budget officials there always say no, most recently as late as two weeks ago, according to sources.
    17. Their efforts were briefly interrupted, however, when a group of Goddess worshipers, holding a ritual for Mother Earth nearby, let go with their primal screams.
    18. The Moslem pilgrims who crowded into the Mo'essem tunnel in Mecca were hurrying to perform the ritual of "stoning the devil," the climax of the annual pilgrimage, or hajj.
    19. The technology extends behavioral therapy into the home and elsewhere, because when patients feel the urge to perform a ritual, "they need some help right there," said Lee Baer of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
    20. Scrubbing one another's backs is a major part of the ritual.
    21. The cult believed that ritual killings would give them occult protection in their drug-running.
    22. In later years, two-up became part of the ritual of celebration of the country's war dead.
    23. Theoretically, every student will have already received their results by post at the same time on Saturday morning. In practice, a rather different ritual has built up.
    24. This annual ritual no doubt bemuses Snow-Belt residents in places where "eight to 10 inches" is hardly enough white stuff to make a good snowman.
    25. He keeps duplicates in his office, at home and in his car in case Lord Weinstock tracks him down when he is on the move. The climax of this financial ritual is the annual budget meeting.
    26. The hermit crab performs an annual ritual similar in spirit to that of Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil, who is said to herald six more weeks of winter whenever he sees his shadow on Groundhog Day.
    27. In the paddock before the go, the crowd of reporters, photographers and well-dressed gawkers around Alysheba pressed so close that trainer Jack Van Berg had to pause from his saddling ritual to warn the assemblage to stand back.
    28. The ritual continues, one option at a time, until the highest-priced, most distant option is opened.
    29. "If you go beyond the ritual calling for pulling down the Berlin Wall, I think there is a feeling that German unification might not be desirable," says Jonathan Hyde-Price, an analyst at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
    30. A drug-smuggling cult allegedly performed the ritual slayings seeking magical protection from the law and rival smugglers.
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