I should add that now they have been married by religious ceremony--in prison!
The former maintains Holy Matrimony to be a religious ceremony, while the State recognises the legality of mere civil contracts, and allows people to enter into the nuptial state by a civil ceremony.
Latin, sacramentum, an oath or promise ratified by a sacred or religious ceremony; thus the oath taken by soldiers in classical times was called sacramentum.
The pula ends with a religious ceremony in the church, with feasting friends and relatives in the house, and feeding the poor, according to one's means.
No religious ceremony or marriage could be undertaken without gaining their consent by the payment of fees, etc.
No religious ceremony, no record, or witness was essential.
The result is curious, for at first sight the lay tribunal seems to be rigidly requiring a religious ceremony which in the eyes of the church is unessential.
The nomenclature of religious ceremony, of moral qualities, and of nearly all the arts of life they possess, are all HindÃ.
Abstinence from food before or in connection with the performance of a magical or religious ceremony, pp.
In New South Wales the firstborn of every lubra used to be eaten by the tribe "as part of a religious ceremony.
Friendship among girls is cemented by a religious ceremony.
He frequently did so, as he does so to-day, but in the seventeenth century this act often is part of a religious ceremony.
When the Australian goes away from a religious ceremony, the representations which this communal life has aroused or re-aroused within him are not obliterated in a second.
The Chinese had an oho-harahi, defined by Mr. Giles in his Chinese Dictionary as 'a religious ceremony of purification performed in spring and autumn, with a view to secure divine protection for agricultural interests.
Everywhere, except in Maryland and West Virginia, where a religious ceremony is essential to a valid union, the optional civil or religions ceremony, at the pleasure of the persons contracting, is sanctioned by the law.
Our knowledge of the uses of music among the most ancient nations is chiefly confined to its function in religious ceremony.
Music never failed at public or private festivity, religious ceremony, or funeral rite.
Marriage, for example, though it still needed a religious ceremony in common opinion, ceased to need it in the eye of the law--a change which is familiar to us in our own age.
The foundation was a religious ceremony; the "founder" traced a sacred enclosure, constructed a sacred hearth, and lighted there the holy fire.
Roman marriage, therefore, is at the start a religious ceremony.
A festival was not, as with us, purely an occasion of rejoicing, but a religious ceremony.
They have magic, but they have no religion, says Mr. Frazer, who presently informs us that 1 the first-born child of every woman was eaten by the tribe as part of a religious ceremony.
We do not know whether they correctly interpreted the alleged sacrifice, in a religious ceremony (by a people said to be almost or quite irreligious), of all the first-born children of women.
In proof of the existence of the custom Mr. Frazer adduces an Australian parallel: 'In some tribes of New South Wales the first-born child of every woman was eaten by the tribe as part of a religious ceremony.
They are of different size, and represent probably a man and a woman performing a religious ceremony; the taller holds in each hand a Latin cross, while the other carries but one in the right hand.
The initiation into the order of knighthood was a religious ceremony, and usually took place on one of the feasts of the Church, as Easter day, the day of Pentecost, or Christmas day.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious ceremony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
