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  • 51ritual — 1. noun an elaborate civic ritual Syn: ceremony, rite, ceremonial, observance; service, sacrament, liturgy, worship; act, practice, custom, tradition, convention, formality, procedure, protocol 2. adjective …

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  • 52ritual — 1. noun an elaborate civic ritual Syn: ceremony, rite, act, practice, custom, tradition, convention, formality, protocol 2. adjective a ritual burial Syn: ceremonial, prescribed, set, formal …

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  • 53ritual — [ˈrɪtʃuəl] noun [C/U] 1) a formal ceremony 2) something that you do regularly and always in the same way Their meetings became a weekly ritual.[/ex] ritual adj …

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  • 54Ritual — ritualas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Gyvūnų tarpusavio bendravimo veiksmai, stiprinantys vienos rūšies individų sąveiką tam tikroje situacijoje (pvz., poruojantis, dominuojančiam individui demonstruojant pranašumą).… …

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  • 55ritual — ritualas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Gyvūnų tarpusavio bendravimo veiksmai, stiprinantys vienos rūšies individų sąveiką tam tikroje situacijoje (pvz., poruojantis, dominuojančiam individui demonstruojant pranašumą).… …

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  • 56Ritual — das Ritual, e (Mittelstufe) Gesamtheit der Riten Synonym: Ritus Beispiel: Junge Männer werden nach einem alten Ritual in die Religion eingeweiht …

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  • 57ritual — n. & adj. n. 1 a prescribed order of performing rites. 2 a procedure regularly followed. adj. of or done as a ritual or rites (ritual murder). Derivatives: ritualize v.tr. & intr. (also ise). ritualization n. (also isation). ritually adv.… …

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  • 58ritual — Synonyms and related words: High Church, Sefer Torah, Torah, Torah scroll, Virginal, amenities, automatic, baccalaureate service, baptismal, bon ton, breviary, buckram, canon, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremonious, ceremoniousness,… …

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  • 59Ritual — Ri|tu|al das; s, Plur. e u. ien [...i̯ən] <aus lat. rituale, substantiviertes Neutrum von ritualis, vgl. ↑ritual>: 1. a) Ordnung für gottesdienstliches Brauchtum; b) religiöser [Fest]brauch in Worten, Gesten u. Handlungen; Ritus (1). 2. a)… …

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  • 60ritual — [16] Ritual was borrowed from Latin rītuālis, a derivative of rītus ‘religious or other ceremony or practice’ (from which, via Old French rite, English gets rite [14]). It may have been related to Sanskrit rīti ‘going, way, custom’. => RITE …

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