The celebrants in the very primitive ritual of the Mountain-Mother in Thrace were, we know, called mimes.
The actors wear ritual vestments like those of thecelebrants at the Eleusinian mysteries.
The wearing of the skin established a kinship between the man and the woman, as in the many classical, ancient and savage rituals where the celebrants wear the hides of the sacrificed beasts.
Bergaigne's final hypothesis is that the Asvins "may be assimilated to the two celebrants who in the beginning seemed to represent the terrestrial and celestial fires".
What the myth meant, or what the furious actions of the celebrants intended, it is only possible to conjecture.
These were the country darkies, though--the town bred celebrants knew exactly where they were going and what they would do when they got there.
Right after one Eighth the celebrants began laying by their savings against the coming of the next Eighth.
How often, knowing the sin-stains upon the hands of the celebrants at the altar in Sta.
The celebrants of the rite then return to the house, and stand in a row in front thereof.
At the funerals, of which we were spectators, no calf was brought near the corpse, and the celebrants of the rites were satisfied with the mere mention by name of a calf, which is male or female according to the sex of the deceased.
No order or discipline was visible in the commando on the march, and if the rifles and bandoliers had not appeared so prominently it might readily have been mistaken for a party of Nachtmaal celebrants on the way to Pretoria.
As at Mass, the celebrants took the new Communion first, drinking from each other.
Something seemed to twist inside her, then she felt the exaltation of Consecration taking hold and she was praying for the new salvation the celebrants offered, not just from the effects of sin but from sin itself.
That reference puzzled Cortin, until the two celebrants asked that God make use of them to do the Protector's work, and were accepted.
Then the celebrants were finished, inviting those who hadn't yet partaken and wished to place themselves under the Protector's care to come forward.
Toppy unwittingly chose a spot over the saloon where drunken celebrants soon began shooting at the ceiling.
A bartender in one of Bodie's better saloons was putting his stock in order after a busy night when three celebrants in swallow tails and toppers came unsteadily through the doors.
Sir Alfred Lyall virtually defines Hinduism as the employment of brahman priests, and it is the adoption of brahmans as celebrants in social and religious ceremonies that marks the passing over of a non-Hindu community into Hinduism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "celebrants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
