With regard to the fourth question the Roman ritual is quite clear.
From his description we may conclude, that some changes had been introduced in its ritual since the time when Lombard and Messingham penned their commentaries.
Thus terminates this curious fragment of the ritual observances of our early Church.
More definite religious conceptions come from other sources, and fix themselves upon this ritual in various ways, changing it, and giving it new meanings.
The usages of patriarchal life change; but this germ of ritual remains, promoted now with a consciously religious motive, losing its domestic character, and therefore becoming more and more inexplicable with each generation.
While the ritual remains unchanged, the aesthetic element, only accidentally connected with it, expands with the freedom and mobility of the things of the intellect.
If this simple ritual has been correctly carried out the tea-leaves, whether many or few, will be found distributed about the bottom and sides of the cup.
But our Democratic anti-Know Nothings not only object to our having formerly kept our ritual concealed, but especially to our denial of the existence of our organization.
Ritual purity, appropriate sacrifice, and personal righteousness in thought, word, and deed, are his weapons in the fight.
The ancient ritualof purification shows that in the early centuries of the national history a public ceremony was occasionally performed.
In the old Italian ritual of a guild at Iguvium the exact titles of the deity must be rehearsed, and the proper words recited.
The Greek ritualsometimes provided a place for the table-companions or "parasites," at sacred banquets, such as were held in the temples of Apollo at Acharnae or Delos.
In its limited application it denotes the four collections of hymns, of ritual formulae, and sacrificial songs, of which the Rig-Veda is the most important (p.
But this simple relation was superseded in the priestly ceremonial by elaborate parallels between the daily order of the ritual and the daily order of the skies.
In the ritual of their worship similar motives and symbols may be traced; and the incidents of their life-course were presented in a sort of sacred drama which reproduced the central mystery.
The ritual of sacrifice may be studied in the book of Leviticus or the Hindu Br[=a]hmanas.
I was not yet a sceptic, but the fear of overstepping the ritual laws had disappeared.
Fringes and phylacteries had long been done away with; the law as to ritual food seemed to me childish and ridiculous, and I had been prevented touching pork only by my aversion to the unaccustomed taste.
Jewish ritual law; these parties represent in a general way the Pharisees and the Sadducees; viii.
Rather than abolish ritual I would embellish it, calling to my aid all the resources of art and music.
I would invest my ritual with awe and majesty, and my priests should be a class apart.
Detached, no portion of the ritualhad meaning; its portent lay in the whole.
You have applauded the ritual of the Mass and the traditions of the Catholic priesthood because they approach so nearly to that mystic ideal which gave potency to the great hierarchies of the past, notably to that of Ancient Egypt.
Upon the necessity for a hierarchy and a mystic ritual he insisted.
In fact, the whole ritual clustered round the idea represented at a later period in the well-known and very beautiful lines of Moschus in the Lament for Bion, which may be freely translated thus: Ah me!
She holds that as it was the god who arose from the rite, similarly it was the ritual connected with the worship of the god which gave birth to his representation in sculpture.
The moral judgments recorded in the Book of Kings concerning legal and ritual offences are measured by the standard of men's consciences nearly a century after Josiah's Reformation in B.
Sacrifices are chiefly dwelt upon in the Priestly Code; but nowhere in the Old Testament is their significance formally explained, nor for many centuries was the Levitic ritual much regarded.
Like all Orientals, like the negroes of America, like most weak minds, they loved to rely on a pompous ritual and a sensuous worship.
The views of that later age must be discounted if we have to admit that some of the ritual innovations and legal transgressions of the kings were transgressions of laws of the very existence of which they were profoundly ignorant.
But it is more than this; in the conferment of University Degrees are preserved formulae as old as the University itself, and a ritual which, if understood, is full of meaning as to the oldest University history.
This was the crowning incident of our visit, and I wondered with what Byzantine ritual the Anointed One fresh from the exercise of his priestly functions would be received among his women.
When the Chorus turn towards the Stage, the whole Scene is ablaze with fires and trembling with clouds of incense, rich unguents perfume the whole Theatre, while a solemn Religious ritual is being celebrated in dumb show.
They, with Athene, chanting the Ritual hymn, file down into the Orchestra, and so lead the Chorus out in the direction of the Shrines of the Eumenides.
The object of the Ritual was to place the king in direct contact with his god Amen-Rā once a day.
The text of thisRitual is found cut in hieroglyphs on the walls of the temple of Seti I at Abydos, and written in hieratic upon papyri preserved in the Imperial Museum in Berlin.
The sa could be received by a man from a god and then transmitted by him to a statue by taking it in his arms, and this ceremony was actually performed by the king in the Ritual of the Divine Cult.
For this reason Caesar tolerated the worship of the newly-settled Egyptian gods alongside of Father Jovis, and granted even to the Jews the free exercise of their strangely foreign ritual in the very capital of the empire.
Jacob of Harkh gave a Christian tinge to their doctrine, went through the country preaching repentance and the performances of ritual observances, and obtained much support from clergy and laity.
Frankish ritualand the Roman pattern; and Charlemagne, whom Hadrian I.
Outer conformity, attendance at the common prayer, was exacted from all, but changes in ritual which would have drawn attention to the change in religion were steadily resisted.
If images were taken out of churches, if here and there a rood-loft was pulled down or a saint's shrine demolished, no change was made in form of ritual or mode of worship.
The older parish priests, though they had almost to a man acquiesced in the changes of ritual and doctrine which the various phases of the Reformation imposed upon them, remained in heart utterly hostile to its spirit.
If she had no convictions, she had tastes; and her taste revolted from the bareness of Protestant ritual and above all from the marriage of priests.
The ceremonies and ritual of the Roman Catholic Church, while appealing to the eye of the artist, were repugnant to his Puritan upbringing, and we find many scornful remarks among his notes.
By the same criterion the ritualwas composed, the dogma developed, the nature of Christ defined, the sacraments and discipline of the Church regulated.
These details are of course introduced to justify the ritual of Eleusis, in which the clown and the barley-water played a traditional part.
With these were naturally connected various ritual observances, and especially the noblest and most important of rites, the sacrifice.
Catholicism in its modern form, with its picturesque ritual and its superstitious worship of the saints, was nothing more than cowled Paganism.
It is the vague pursuit of an unknown god ranging through a maze of decorative ritual and symbol, and there remain great arid spaces in our nature which it never fills up.
The deceased were all Protestants, the villagers were all Roman Catholics, yet the villagers performed the ceremony with all the ritualshown to those of their own faith.
The gospel as revealed in the teachings of Jesus is entirely free from the sacerdotal imperative which nowadays imposes priest andritual in the path of spiritual worship and blocks the fair-way to God.
Dancers, male and female, their faces painted red and white or yellow, dance like furies in a circle for hours together, singingritual hymns at the top of their voices, while an old sorceress besprinkles the troop with lustral water.
And theritual celebrated in the ahu resembled the ritual performed in the marae: there, too, the faithful assembled to pray, and there the priests recited the same liturgy.
He distinguished a marae from an ahu, admitting at the same time that they closely resembled each other, both in their structure and in the ritual celebrated at them.
Among the Barundi of East Africa the birth of twins is celebrated with rites, songs, andritual dances, which last for days and even for weeks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ritual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
