We read that Esaw sold out hiz birth rite for soup, and menny wonder at hiz extravegance, but Esaw diskovered arly, what menny a man haz diskovered since, that it iz hard work tew live on a pedigree.
He haint never seen a rale-road yet, nor a wimmin's rite convenshun.
One man ov genius to 97 thousand four hundred and 42 men ov tallent iz just about the rite perporshun for aktual bizzness.
The rite mixtur ov duv and sarpient in a man's natur iz a good dose.
Sumtimes a duk gits lame, and, when they do, they lay rite down and giv it up.
They don't never make enny blunders, but tendrite tew bizzness.
If tha ever die tha must kum rite tu life agin, for i never herd noboddy sa "ded mule.
Tha will eat as mutch tu onst as a district skule master, and ginerally sit down rite oph tew keep from tipping over.
Learned men will tell you that the abuv assershun iz one ov Josh Billings infernal lies, and yer hav a perfekt rite tew believe them, but i don't.
Before the rite of purification was performed the temples were rebuilt, new altars reared, new images placed within the sacred precincts, and new wooden effigies set up near the graves.
Such a rite is therefore magical rather than religious; it depends for its efficacy on natural causes, and not on the pity and help of the gods.
The only crimes that were visited by the displeasure of their deities were the neglect of some rite or ceremony, or the failing to furnish required offerings.
Such was the fear inspired by this rite that the culprit seldom failed to come forward and acknowledge his guilt.
The rite is said to have been invented by the god Rongo in order to seduce the beautiful wife of his brother Tangaroa, and he enjoined the observance of circumcision upon his worshippers.
The wish to raise the soul to heaven was perhaps the motive for another curiousrite performed at the obsequies of a chief.
There is no need; but Mary gladly does both, that she may enter more closely into the spirit of her Son, Who had undergone the rite of circumcision.
The rite of Circumcision was to the Jew a sign of the Covenant that GOD had made with his nation--it marked him out as one of GOD'S own people; it was a mark of his dependence on GOD, and also of his slavery to sin till GOD set him free.
Come, let the burial rite be read--the funeral song be sung: An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young, A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient.
Whether it was a rite merely national or spiritual, or both, comes not within the scope of this inquiry.
Father Vimont, as he performed this holy rite of his Church, addressed the new colonists with words which foreshadowed the success of the Roman Catholic Church in the greatest Canadian city, which was first named Ville-Marie.
This wish was granted, and the rite was administered.
No deity and no rite in any corner of his dominions escaped his vigilance.
One ancient rite alone persisted until the other day.
This is rite all in a hurry, sir, y^t I hope you'le excuse me.
Rite now he's trying to crash Argosy with a story--and in the future you can expect some big things from this quiet author.
The lites of the city were comets with tails that pelted from rite to left like foaming fireworks.
He was now alleged to have been a sorcerer before he performed the rite of baptism.
The interesting feature of this rite is, that it does not really represent the Teuton "expulsion of winter" so much as the much older ceremony of piously visiting the site on which in Pagan times bodies used to be burnt after death.
The rite of circumcision, for instance, is only performed at King's Sound, on the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and near the head of the Australian bight on the south.
Two of the older men of the party, Flinders was surprised to find had undergone the rite of circumcision; they had rafts of precisely the same construction as those in use on the North-west coast.
Who furnisht him his licker for eight months, and who hez the best rite for the first dig at the proceeds uv the position?
It's the normal condishn uv the lower grade uv Dimokrats to be snubbed; and they hev no rite to inquire whether anything the aristocracy uv the party propose is goin to be a failyoor or not.
Androo Johnson could be got rite on that question, we'd care not wat else he required uv us.
Mr. Morrisey remarked that, ez one uv the pillars uv the Democrasy, he felt he hed a rite to speek.
These niggers hed no rite to irritate us by their presence.
And when the holy rite was over, she had vanished away.
So I was free to gallop off through the storm for Wearmouth when the rite was over, and none pursued me, for old Whitburn was a man of his word.
Haruspices and priests and those accustomed to serve this ritewe forbid to enter any private house, or under the pretence of friendship to cross the threshold of another, under the penalty established against them if they contemn the law.
They were used principally in baptism, and were long kept secret from the catechumen until just before that rite was administered.
The place which is now employed in the celebration of this rite is a level spot about two hundred yards from the summit of the mountain, a place which is apparently selected on account of its comparative quiet and seclusion.
The ceremony of the Passover has been described by several persons, such as the late Consul Rogers and the Dean of Westminster, the latter of whom has given, a most striking and vivid account of the rite in his "Lectures on the Jewish Church.
From the ancient rite he merely eliminated all that had reference to the sacrificial character of the Mass, the Canon, for instance, and the preceding Offertory.
In some places this riteis omitted by the Gampa section.
It is a curious fact that the Puramalai-nadu Kallans practice the rite of circumcision.
In their marriage customs, some Kallans have adopted the Puranic form of riteowing to the influence of Brahman purohits, and, though adult marriage is the rule, some Brahmanised Kallans have introduced infant marriage.
The hero worship, as performed by the Goda section, differs from the above rite as practiced by the Gampa section.
The Kondhs of Bara Mootah promised to relinquish the rite on condition, inter alia, that they should be at liberty to sacrifice buffaloes, monkeys, goats, etc.
The marriage rite is performed at night, and the bride's father ties a gold bead (konti) on the neck of the bridegroom.
With this may be compared the Sevvaipillayar rite celebrated in honour of Ganesa by Vellala woman (see Vellala).
Thus the rite of immersion can be claimed by any Church people.
The Rite of Confirmation forms one of the seven Sacraments of the Churches of Greece and Rome.
The concluding rubric, although making it a point of Church order that people should be confirmed before coming to Holy Communion, allows that in certain cases the privilege conferred by the Rite may be anticipated.
In the Western Church the Rite became gradually dissociated from Baptism, although it has never lost its primary signification as a confirming, or strengthening, by the Holy Ghost of those who have been baptized.
The solemn religious riteby which a sovereign prince is consecrated to his high office.
Attention should be called, however, to the brilliant explanation of the importance accorded by all religions to the rite of fasting.
Though under English rule the rite has been forcibly suppressed, yet the archaic sentiments which so long maintained it are not yet extinct.
It is hardly necessary to do more than allude to the Fiji custom of strangling all the wives of the deceased at his funeral, or to the equally well-known Hindu rite of suttee.
In Chhattisgarh and Bengal the principal marriage rite is usually the smearing of vermilion by the bridegroom on the parting of the bride's hair, and elsewhere this is commonly done as a subsidiary ceremony.
Polygamy widow-marriage and divorce A girl who becomes pregnant by a man of the caste before marriage is wedded to him by the rite used for widows.
This rite is also meant to induce fertility, the kernel of the cocoanut being held to resemble an unborn baby.
Mourning is observed for five days, and at the end of this period the mourners should have their hair cut, but if they cannot get it done on this day, the rite may be performed on the same day in the following year.
This rite takes place in the middle of the rainy season, when all kinds of insects infest the house, and colds and fever are prevalent Mr. H.
Another special rite is the Pansavan ceremony, performed to remove all defects in the child, give it a male form, increase its size and beauty, give it wisdom and avert the influence of evil spirits.
This dance is a religious rite in honour of Karam Raja, and is believed to keep sickness from the village and bring it prosperity.
As a development of such a rite the hair might have become an offering to the dead, and later still its removal might become a sacrifice and indication of grief.
Then they take the goat and the after-birth to a cemetery and here cut the goat's throat by the halal rite and bury it with the after-birth.
At the rite of hatleva or joining the hands of the couple it was customary that any request made by the bridegroom to the bride's father should meet with compliance, and this usage has led to many fatal results in history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
