rite 的定义
- a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use: rites of baptism; sacrificial rites.
- a particular form or system of religious or other ceremonial practice: the Roman rite.
- a liturgy or liturgical system, especially one of the historical versions of the Eucharistic service: the Anglican Rite.
- Eastern Church, Western Church. a division or differentiation of churches based on liturgical practice.
- any customary observance or practice: the rite of afternoon tea.
rite 近义词
ceremony, tradition
更多rite例句
- The society she imagines has developed divergent theological myths and rites, like the annual “Mothering Monday,” a raucous holiday when men and women cross-dress and get wild.
- Nothing is sadder than sitting at a table of computers — unable to comfort my devastated father — and attempting to reinvent rites taken for granted.
- The wooden floors sloped, and signed photos of Harry Houdini and Harry Blackstone hung on the walls, like patron saints presiding over sacred, mysterious rites.
- The next day, I visited Shakoor’s native village in Laribal Tral, where thousands of people participated in his last rites.
- Of course, we shouldn’t be too quick to read Google the last rites.
- In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.
- For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.
- A rite of passage solely reserved for adolescent girls, the painful custom is believed to be as old as the local creation myth.
- I had bought the device at Rite-Aid precisely because it resembled a cigarette.
- What is beginning to emerge is Brazil at an adolescent stage as part of a national rite of passage.
- This important rite was just completed, when a packet was put into Ripperda's hand from Spain.
- By submitting to the rite, every one that received circumcision became a debtor to do the whole law.
- That the efficiency of this rite as a sign might be most complete, attention to it was enjoined under the greatest penalty.
- Had it not been for the Everlasting Covenant, the rite of sacrifice had not been instituted, and a priesthood had not been.
- The rite concludes by the recipient spitting on a consecrated host and the whole assembly piercing it in turn with stilettos.