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ritual: see ceremony ceremony, expression of shared feelings and attitudes through more or less formally ordered actions of an essentially symbolic nature performed on appropriate occasions. ..... Click the link for more information. . ritual 1. the prescribed or established form of a religious or other ceremony 2. such prescribed forms in general or collectively 3. Psychol any repetitive behaviour, such as hand-washing, performed by a person with a compulsive personality disorder How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The tea house/table is for the use of the neighbourhood community, who can engage in either ritualistic contemplation or communal jollification. IN the not-so-proud history of ritualistic hazing, there have certainly been greater abuses and indignities inflicted on people than being tricked into eating a few bites of dog food. The wording that just staggered me (I kept reading it over and over) was as follows: "The national motto is excluded from First Amendment significance because the motto 'has no theological or ritualistic impact' and is of a purely secular, 'patriotic' and 'ceremonial character. |
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