It can scarcely be said any Indian gens had special religious rites; and yet their religious worship had a more or less direct connection with the gentes.
Religious rites performed by a gens were called sacra privata, or sacra gentilicia.
And, O son of Pritha, whatever of good fortune a person obtaineth in consequence of religious rites, that is called providential.
Verily, this is the northern bank, inhabited by saints, suitable for the performance of religious rites beautified by a hill, and frequented by persons of the regenerate caste.
And verily at this spot in former times, other saints likewise worshipped the immortals by the performance of religious rites.
O Bharata, when sin will thus have been rooted out and virtue will flourish on arrival of the Krita age, men will once more betake themselves to the practice of religious rites.
Tantras represent the perversion of the principle of love to polluting and degrading practices disguised under the name of religious rites.
There can hardly be any doubt that these and other portions of the Edificios were devoted to religious rites.
Other enclosures are classed as sacred, or pertaining in some way to religious rites, because no other equally satisfactory explanation of their use can be given.
The man possessed of wisdom would not seek wealth for the performance of religious rites by ways that are unrighteous and that involve an abandonment of morality.
He prepared himself by prayer and fasting, watched his arms at night in a chapel, and was then admitted with the performance of religious rites.
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation.
A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
There died this year, of the public priests, Lucius AEmilius Papus, decemvir of religious rites, and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, a pontiff who had been censor the year before.
Caius Sempronius Longus was made decemvir of religious rites, and Caius Scribonius Curio, chief curio.
Alcibiades was charged with insulting these religious rites, and although the proof of his offense was quite doubtful, yet he suffered for it for years in exile and misery, and it must be allowed that he was the most popular man of his age.
Humboldt in his Researches observes: "In every part of the globe, on the ridge of the Cordilleras as well as in the Isle of Samothrace, in the Aegean Sea, fragments of primitive languages are preserved in religious rites.
Defn: A large chamber built under, or in, the houses of a Pueblo village, used as an assembly room in religious rites or as a men's dormitory.
Defn: A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation.
Defn: A mystic syllable or ejaculation used by Hindus and Buddhists in religious rites, -- orig.
Religious rites, in short, were the prime function of government, and therefore, whereas the office charged with these duties ranked low in the Tang system, it was placed at the head of all in Japan.
To two of the former (Koyane and Futodama) she entrusted all matters relating to religious rites, and they became respectively the ancestors of the Nakatomi and the Imibe families.
It is memorable for the reorganization of religious rites; for the extension of the effective sway of the Throne, and for the encouragement of agriculture.
It seems to be a survival of the thought that here was the beginning of religious rites, and that all covenant worship must continue in its spirit and power.
Bhishma said, 'Do thou, O prince, attentively listen to the details I shall recite in respect of the custom of giving away umbrellas and shoes at religious rites, and as to how and by whom it was introduced.
A Brahmana, a Kshatriya, or a Vaisya, so engaging, is doomed, although devoted to the due performance of religious rites.
The aim of the Pythagorean philosophy was to attain the state of ecstasy, and to purify the mind by religious rites.
This policy, however, applied specially to religious rites practised in the countries in which they were indigenous.
Traditions, religious rites, superstitious practices, dances, were handed down from generation to generation.
The ornaments of temples and palaces are mostly composed of hieroglyphics, highly adorned, of the emblems of religious rites, of statues of great men and priests, surrounded by many embellishments.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious rites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
