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- noun Plural form of
ritual .
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Examples
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Watching the rituals is a little like looking through a window at a particularly dramatic and captivating bit of weather.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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According to the Telegraph, dozens of albinos have been killed and dismembered in rituals, under the local belief that charms made from their body parts can bring good luck.
Tanzania Elects First Albino MP Curtis M. Wong 2010
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The Council of Trent taught that human nature is such that it can not easily rise to the meditation of divine things without external aids, and for this reason the Church as a loving mother has established certain rituals [...] to make more evident the majesty of a sacrifice so great and bring the minds of the faithful, with these visible signs of religion and piety, to the sublime contemplation of reality (DS 1746).
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At The Energy Project, we help our clients develop something we call rituals -- highly specific behaviors, done at precise times, so they eventually become automatic and no longer require conscious will or discipline.
Tony Schwartz: The Only Way to Get Important Things Done Tony Schwartz 2011
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Look: religiously I use the swastika (by another name) in rituals just as it appears in bronze-age and iron age finds.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy 2010
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If anything, the canon (pseudo-fact book, not fiction or film) on these things says zombies have to be made in rituals, so a zombie would have started like that, not underground.
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By the sound of it, rituals is the best chapter in the book!
4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 10: Rituals « Geek Related 2008
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Latin rituals for ordaining deaconesses exist from as late as the 10th century, but the precise sacramental nature of these ordinations has not yet been determined authoritatively.
Milwaukee News Item #1: Married Catholic Priests « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008
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Another of our family Christmas rituals is making the mince pies.
Archive 2008-12-01 lili 2008
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Another of our family Christmas rituals is making the mince pies.
Mince Pies lili 2008
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