Translation
rite, ritual
Word origin
From Latin ritus, the prescribed order of a religious act. English rite and ritual come from the same word, and so does the adverb behind rightly in older religious English.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ritus
- English cognates
- rite, ritual
Examples
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The old rite lasted three hours.
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Every religion has its own rites.
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The rite began in the church before evening.
A is the prescribed form of an act, usually religious: the words and gestures that have to be done in that order for the thing to count. is the wider public occasion, which may contain several , and is what you happen to do every morning without anyone prescribing it. The adjective is rita, and a body of rites belongs to a in the ecclesiastical sense too, as in the Latin and Byzantine rites.
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