WordNet
n. a ceremony having religious meaning [syn: religious ritual]
Usage examples of "religious ceremony".
The ritual of a Cathayan dinner party is almost as elaborate as a religious ceremony.
He seldom went there except when Tara's husband, prompted by Tara, held a religious ceremony and needed Brahmins to feed.
They'd let it season for a little while before loading it on an American-flag timber carrier for the trip across the Pacific, where the log would be worked with skill and due religious ceremony—.
They'd let it season for a little while before loading it on an American-flag timber carrier for the trip across the Pacific, where the log would be worked with skill and due religious ceremony - by hand, the GP man was amazed to hear - for its new and special purpose.
Among the Mandan Indians we not only find flood legends, but, more remarkable still, we find an 'image of the ark preserved' from generation to generation, and a religious ceremony performed which refers plainly to the destruction of Atlantis, and to the arrival of one of those who escaped from the Flood, bringing the dreadful tidings of the disaster.
Groups of robed women went from plant to plant as if in a religious ceremony, adding cupfuls of water so the plants could thrive.
You cant bring two heathens into the nave of the Basilica during a religious ceremony, Ehlana.
He could couch it all as a religious ceremony on the altar of Journalistic Integrity.