Isla's gifts were first shown in his Triunfo del amor y de la lealtad: Dia Grande de Navarra, a satirical description of the ceremonies at Pamplona in honour of Ferdinand VI.
Cyrus appears in the unassailably authentic cylinder inscription "as a complete religious indifferentist, willing to go through any amount of ceremonies to soothe the prejudices of a susceptible population.
The book of common prayer suffered in England a new revisal, and some rites and ceremonies which had given offence were omitted.
The severe disposition which naturally attends all reformers prompted likewise the council to abolish some gay and showy ceremonies which belonged to the ancient religion.
A fellow standing under the sun portico (a sort of swaggering, chattering, cringing touter, and master of ceremonies to the gutter) told us something with regard to the old disreputable man.
He had gone through the usual miserable ceremonies and delays which attend what is called, in this country, the march of justice.
In place of these, their countenances expressed a dull curiosity; and though they kissed the earth and flung the incense, as usual, in their manner of salutation, they seemed impelled to these ceremonies more by fear than affection.
As the old ceremonies become obsolete the property idea fades out of the marital relation, and the woman's exclusive devotion to her husband is no longer a rational inference from capture or purchase by him, but becomes a sentiment of sex.
Somewhat parallel cases of the addition of religious ceremonies to solemn public acts which had been developed in the mores are the emancipation of a slave, and the making of a knight.
The church found the solemn ceremonies for concluding marriage existing [in each nation].
The church, in time, added new ceremonies to suit its own views.
The ceremonies of purchase and capture lasted for a very long time, because there was no other way to indicate the bond of wedlock until the promise came into use.
They have ceremonies by which to awaken this passion in the rice as a means of increasing their own food supply.
The history of wedding ceremonies presents very many instances of conventionalization.
It was a ceremony fitted by its majesty and its magnificence to close the grand ceremonies of Easter-Week.
It describes the ceremonies of the marriage of his parents and of his own baptism, as introductory to his career.
Did the mournful ceremonies of Ash-Wednesday help to incline a certain lady and a young girl of Lourdes to one of these solutions?
The remainder of the letter sets forth in detail the arrangements for carrying out the public ceremonies of the Quarant Ore, all breathing the fragrance of Catholic piety.
The splendor of the ceremonies of our holy church, as celebrated in Rome, especially in St. Peter's, is unequalled in the whole world.
I mention all these little ceremonies as they occur, that hereafter I may have no occasion, when they lead to other matters,, to explain them.
All the rites and ceremonies possible were performed, and it is reported that there were even extras, as in the benefits for actors.
Then follow the ceremonies which they will at that time have to pass through, and which they who are already Brand-Foxes now pass through.
And who will determine when ceremonies contravene the doctrine about which no one is certain?
The inauguration ceremonies were intended to be imposing.
Later in the day the rain increased, and about the hour set for the ceremonies it had settled down to a steady pour.
Trenta, when spoken to on the subject of his partiality, said he was "educating him" to fill his place as master of the ceremonies in Lucchese society.
Here the same ceremonies are repeated as at the church of San Frediano.
Lady Strathcona accompanied Lord Strathcona on his flying visit to Canada in the autumn of 1913, when His Lordship came to Montreal to take part in the ceremonies connected with the congress of the American Bar Association.
Other ceremonies are concerned with cattle; for instance, the release of a young bull for the benefit of the community.
Various ceremoniesare connected with the building and entering of a new house.
The fact that chapters 26-29 contain mantras relating to ceremoniesdealt with in previous chapters and requiring to be applied to those ceremonies, is a clear indication of their supplementary character.
The Grihya Sutras give the rules for the numerous ceremoniesapplicable to the domestic life of a man and his family from birth to the grave.
Founded by Jaimini, and set forth in the Karma-mimamsa Sutras, this system discusses the sacred ceremonies and the rewards resulting from their performance.
This partial originality was indeed a necessary result of the growth of entirely new ceremonies and the extraordinary development of ritual detail.
The last portion (33-40), dealing with the ceremonies of the inauguration of the king and with the position of his domestic priest, bears similar signs of lateness.
The oldest, that of Macaka, also called Arsheya-kalpa, is nothing more than an enumeration of the prayers belonging to the variousceremonies of the Soma sacrifice in the order of the Panchavimca Brahmana.
Some of theceremonies only survive in a symbolical form, as those connected with religious studentship.
It knows nothing of the last two books, nor even a number of ceremonies described in the third and fourth, while having a book of its own concerning the sacrifice to the Manes.
The Samaveda resembles the Yajurveda in having been compiled exclusively for ritual application; for the verses of which it consists are all meant to be chanted at the ceremonies of the soma sacrifice.
It does not deal with the Soma sacrifice at all, but only with ceremonies relating to birth and marriage or prayers addressed to divine beings.
It will, therefore, suffice to mention in briefest outline the ceremonies with which they deal.
How many silly baptismal ceremonies had been sought out and invented by men, without the authority of God!
With regard to the sacraments, there was some jarring of opinion; but when those of our side conceded to them their ceremonies as things indifferent, they advanced then to the consideration of the sacrament of the Supper.
But he made a small reservation, to the effect that the ceremonies which they had been compelled to retain were not more approved of by Luther than was our sparing use of them.
They adore stone and wood; they invoke the dead; they trust in lying vanities; they would serve God by ceremonies foolishly invented without the authority of his word.
There was no Master of Ceremonies at hand to introduce him.
As he passed through the hall, he saw the Master of Ceremonies in hot haste descending from his carriage, and "anxious to apologise to him, with temper somewhat ruffled, for his involuntary uselessness.
June 22d, published July 16th, he tells of the death and burialceremonies of the Princess Victoria K.
Following the procession, which he describes, came the grand ceremonies of welcome at Haverley's Theatre.
The plea that all this was mere symbolism, if applied also to the rites and ceremonies prescribed by the Hindu or Persian priesthood, would make all religions inspired.
I use to denote those phrases in religious ceremonies in which the priest clinches or compels the magic effect of an analogy by means of the spoken word.
The ceremonies are performed, and the omen of the bile sac promises well.
If he is successful in getting the religious part of the ceremonies started, and can keep the minds of the seller and his kin from the unpaid gifts or fees until they eat, then the fees never have to be paid.
This myth is employed in all of the final ceremonies of marriage, and in all ceremonies of married persons that have the obtaining of children as their object.
Its carving out of the trunk, and its bringing in from the forest, is an affair in which many villages participate, and is accompanied by pretentious ceremonies and feasts.
The collector of a large fine performs an unpretentious series of ceremoniesdirected to the gods of animal fertility and growth.
Instead of breaking the monuments of idolatry, our early teachers gave them a Christian baptism, by cutting on them the symbols of their own religion; and with the rites and ceremonies of paganism they dealt in like manner.
Whether these ceremonies are remains of the vague Druidical, or of the Helioarkite, or of the Mithraic worship, I am not able to say.
The simple ritual of the Highland churches was scarcely capable of any change; and it is not likely that forms and ceremonies were much debated in Gairloch.
The old forms and ceremonies of the men of 1789 and the manners and breeding of our earliest generation of statesmen had passed away, and the new democracy had not as yet a system of its own.
In accordance with his wishes, all public forms andceremonies were dispensed with.
This, among many other ceremonies of the heathen worship, became disused in some places and retained in others, but still continued declining after the promulgation of the Gospel.
These feasts appear to be the relics of Pagan ceremonies or of Judaism, it is hard to say which, and carry in them more meaning and are of far higher antiquity than is generally apprehended.
Villemot held Schmucke's arm while the master of the ceremonies invested Schmucke with the ample, dismal-looking garment worn by heirs-at-law in the procession to and from the house and the church.
I went through the pictures with the catalogue while the master of ceremonies was making up the number of pall-bearers, and found that eight of those indicated as works of capital importance by M.
The master of the ceremonies looked compassionately at Schmucke; this expert in sorrow knew real grief when he saw it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceremonies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
