What is "ritually"

Usage examples of "ritually".

The popes of Rome later took it upon themselves to ritually anoint the emperors into their exalted office as part of the ceremony of coronation, as if a pope should have the power to create a messiah.

She it was who bestowed his Messiahship by ritually anointing him with spikenard, and if the idea that she was wealthy is correct, then perhaps her influence made the initiatory and magical rite of the Crucifixion possible.

He would, he thought as he watched the officers of the court take their places and the tipstaff call the chamber to order, arrange a celebration at which all memories of this interlude would be ritually burned.

Grammy for best spoken word recording is gently slowly ritually rubbing copper hexafluoroacetylacetone into her clitoris as she watches the hunk with the non-Euclidian features shoot a glob of dehydrogenated ethylbenzene 3,900 miles towards the Arctic archipelago, eventually raining down upon a fiord on Baffin Bay.

Coburg Social Parlours Annual Bad Breath Contest, that I first experienced prayer as something other than what went on, ritually, in churches and meant nothing to me whatever.

She ignored the staring clones and vars, ritually scuffed the dust thrice, and bowed.

Farmers scratched the ground again, charcoal burners ritually sealed their kilns and put their hands to carpentry or roadmending for a while, and fifteen hundred devotees of the Ice Cult started their pilgrimages from all over North America to see the breakup at Niagara.

This edict was drummed ritually in the hell-for-fire sermons at every Sunday chapel service.

Senjin was certain that he had effectively destroyed Nicholas's one avenue to salvation when he had ritually murdered Kyoki, the tanjian living in the castle in the Asama highlands.

The priests who had ritually and magically cleansed the murder sites noticed nothing irregular, and Dema found no traces of magic.

But this apparently unlimited fund of reparations has been totally splintered and divided up (and dried up), because white males now include males that themselves are vying for special rights as victims: drug abusers, emotionally disturbed, obese, short, hearing-impaired, handicapped, satanically ritually abused.

Sometimes people who had immigrated to Side 3 complained because the seasons approximated those of the temperate zones in Earth's northern hemisphere, and in the early days, whenever an emigrant from a tropical region or from the southern hemisphere became an official of the Mean Time Control Agency, he would ritually propose a change.

This particular Sunday, with a brisk, cool wind blowing in from the Huang Pu River, Zilin, dressed in a dark pinstriped business suit, entered the precincts of the cemetery clutching in his white fists the joss sticks that he ritually lit in front of the grave while he knelt, reciting the Buddhist sutras that should have been said at the funeral Mai had never had.

Now, 'pull the other one, it's got bells on', he'd heard of - it stemmed from the days of a crueller than usual ruler in Ankh-Morpork who had had any Morris dancers ritually tortured.

They ritually washed their hands, then said the blessing while eating warm pita bread.