The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ceremonially \Cer`e*mo"ni*al*ly\, adv. According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.
Wiktionary
adv. In a ceremonial manner.
WordNet
adv. in a ceremonious manner; "my mother advised her children ceremoniouslly" [syn: ceremoniously] [ant: unceremoniously]
in a ceremonial manner; "he was ceremonially sworn in as President" [syn: ritually]
Usage examples of "ceremonially".
During the warmer seasons the River People lived on a floating dock moored just below, but in winter they moved up to the high terrace and shared the dwellings of ceremonially joined cross-cousins.
The Googles ate of the babu root, perhaps ceremonially, and they forgot, and in the forgetting they sloughed their culture from them, retrogressing four entire culture pouits.
Among Japanese macaques, social class is maintained and reinforced by daily mounting: males of lower caste adopt the characteristic submissive sexual posture of the female in oestrus and are briefly and ceremonially mounted by higher-caste males.
And so the Ainu do help -- by killing them, removing and eating the uniforms, and ceremonially bidding the release visitors bon voyage.
Then he would go into the temple and ceremonially flay the body-a little like the Xipe-Totec rite, except that the flaying was done after death, rather than before-then reappear clothed in her skin and her garments, denoting that the corn had gone into the earth and been reborn as the young corn plant.
Then he would go into the temple and ceremonially flay the bodya little like the Xipe-Totec rite, except that the flaying was done after death, rather than beforethen reappear clothed in her skin and her garments, denoting that the corn had gone into the earth and been reborn as the young corn plant.
Malachi ceremonially destroyed his T-square and plumb bob before beginning construction.