What is "ritualized"

Usage examples of "ritualized".

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?