What is "ritualize"

Usage examples of "ritualize".

Competitions, including arguments, were actively used as alternatives, but were ritualized, strictly controlled, and kept within defined boundaries.

Beginning with pushing and shoving, and ritualized defecating and sniffing, the contests escalated, especially during the spring rutting season, to rearing, biting necks, striking at knees, and kicking out hind legs toward faces, heads, and chests.

And what was sport, underneath, but a kind of sanitized, ritualized violence?

The members of the subculture gather to celebrate their subculture in specific, ritualized ways.

As an example Lem points to state and antistate terrorism, ritualized violence in art and the media, political extremism, the ultra-right turn to neofascism in electoral practice, and the lasting attraction of death as an ultimate cultural bastion to be defeated.

The so-called vapors were just another way for the priests to mystify and ritualize the activities.

In non-primate mammals and in reptiles, comparable ritualized behavior seems to be controlled in the same part of the brain, and lesions in this reptilian component can impair other automatic types of behavior besides ritual-for example, walking or running.

He accepted her apologies with more apologies of his own until the ritualized politeness was complete on both sides.

It may have been something in the nature of a renewal of the aristocrats in their rank, or a symbolic token of the interdependency of the sovereign and the aristocracies, ritualized by their sharing of a common meal, or something to do with the national religion, which as yet I understood imperfectly.

Ahead of them the masked dancers shook their phallic wands and capered, and the Spring Maiden, her long hair buffeted and tangled by the breeze, was going around the circle of the dancers, exchanging a kiss with each-a ritualized, formal kiss, where her lips barely touched each cheek.

Not only did Catholics kneel and mutter litanies and creeds without ceasing, but they ritualized any hope of contact with God to such an extent that Owen felt they'd interfered with his ability to pray-to talk to God DIRECTLY, as Owen put it.

We can see them as people intent on ritualizing a denial of our elemental nature.

It was part of this ritual-he made a habit of ritualizing everything-and it made her dizzy with sensation.

Instead—and in many ways worse—a peculiar deliberation had come over all my movements, slowing them, ritualizing them.

Instead-and in many ways worse-a peculiar deliberation had come over all my movements, slowing them, ritualizing them.