RELIGIOUS RITUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious ritual mean? 

• RELIGIOUS RITUAL (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS RITUAL has 1 sense:

1. a ceremony having religious meaning

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS RITUAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS RITUAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ceremony having religious meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

religious ceremony; religious ritual

Hypernyms ("religious ritual" is a kind of...):

ceremony (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious ritual"):

agape; love feast (a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship)

religious rite; rite (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion)

divine service; religious service; service (the act of public worship following prescribed rules)

sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)

confirmation (a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism)

sanctification (a religious ceremony in which something is made holy)

Oblation; religious offering (the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist)

inunction; unction (anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual)

libation (the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony)

Mass ((Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist)