What is "observances"

Usage examples of "observances".

A few devote themselves, rather like Zoroastrians, to keeping uncorrupt those religious observances that maintain a proper harmony between heaven and earth.

I found him respectful until he began to lecture us on the proper observances of this-and-that ceremony.

In addition to the three hundred major observances, the true gentleman must also know and be able to practice three thousand minor ones.

He performed the observances of the Holy Church for our town and the surrounding countryside.

We passed through the gates and made our way to the yard outside Lord Miliucc's hall, where the tuath had gathered to watch the first of many observances held throughout the day this one a recitation by the ollamh.

Kingship and its privileges and obligations, farming methods, trade between tribes and nations, the lineages of noble houses, philosophy, the movements of heavenly bodies, religious rites and observances in all these things and more, they were masters.

Everywhere they go, they strive to uproot our traditions and plant their foreign observances instead.

Owing to my having to take a larger part in the observances, it was past midday before I found a chance to speak to Sionan alone.

Among these regulations were many pertaining to religious observances, and yet he is not reported to have received even these from the gods.

And it is supposed he was thus requited for appointing many religious observances among the Romans.

For the nature of these beings is sufficiently evinced by the sacred or rather sacrilegious observances which form their worship, and by the filthy games in which their crimes are celebrated, and which they themselves originated and exacted from their worshippers as a fit propitiation.