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nounany customary observance or practice
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nounstereotyped behavior
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nounthe prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
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"ritual killing"of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals
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"a ritual dance of Haiti" "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals
Definition that contains ritual
- clean ritually clean or pure
- harakiri ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
- seppuku ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
- mudra ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing
- hara-kiri ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
- harikari ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society