The Chins, another people of Upper Burma, eat the first-fruits of their corn as a religious rite, but before doing so they offer some of the new corn or vegetables to their dead ancestors.
We are confirmed in this opinion by observing that down to the time of Isaiah some of the Jews used to meet secretly in gardens to eat the flesh of swine and mice as a religious rite.
The act is not a religious rite, for the thing thrown on the heap is not an offering to spiritual powers, and the words which accompany the act are not a prayer.
Gradual transformation of an old magical ceremony into a religious rite.
Furnace, walking through a fiery, as a religious rite, xi.
The custom of tearing in pieces the bodies of animals and of men and then devouring them raw has been practised as a religious rite by savages in modern times.
The demeanour of the king is solemn and composed: he seems to be performing a religious rite, not suffering an ignominious death.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious rite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
