What is "ritualistic"

Usage examples of "ritualistic".

As primitively prepared for ritualistic purposes and for a continuing period of more than two thousand years, it was a simple mixture of powdered charcoal or soot with water, to which gum was sometimes added.

What has come down to us of this particular era is mostly found on the old written Hebrew relics, showing that they at least had made no innovations in respect to the use of their ritualistic deyo.

Deryni would have crossed himself in ritualistic plea for deliverance, had control of physical function remained in his volition.

That the dance was ritualistic and had some hidden religious significance was the only explanation that he could place upon it, yet even so he realised that it was fully as artistic and beautiful and intelligent as much of the so-called aesthetic dancing that he had been compelled to endure in modern America and Europe.

He was aware, however, that the apsarases, or dancing girls of the temples, were held in considerable veneration because of the ritualistic nature of their dances, which identified them closely with the religious life of the nation and rendered them, in a way, the particular wards of the gods.

This was always borne by Madame every night in ritualistic procession, Jeanne following with a silver candlestick and a night-light.

Like most ritualistic practices this habit has a utilitarian origin: it serves to keep the dust of grooming from entering the lungs.

You so know that that part about ritualistic chanting was directed at ME.

But the satraps apparently engage in a certain amount of somewhat ritualistic warfare to settle disputes.

A true immortal like Victor would not refuse someone the gift of everlasting life by decreeing the ritualistic mingling of blood a forbidden act.

Claire whispered, unable to turn away from the ritualistic torture despite her horror.

At worst, specialists in the new field of SRA warned, teenagers who started out innocently playing with Ouija boards or reading books on paganism and magic could be drawn into rites involving the use of dangerous symbols, and from there into vandalism, animal mutilations, ritualistic abuse of children, and suicide, or even murder.

He was a bit put off, though, when Candy did a string of ritualistic isometric exercises.

It was just a formal ritualistic statement, this implication that he could come back at a future time.

The door was opened by a young lad of seventeen or thereabouts, who reminded me vaguely of an acolyte, so ritualistic was his manner.