religious ritual

Noun
  1. A ceremony having religious meaning (synset 101030024)
    is a type of: ceremony - the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: religious ceremony

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