Ritual definition

Ritual

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WordNet

(1) Of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals

"A ritual dance of Haiti"

"Sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer

(2) Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals

"Ritual killing"

(3) Stereotyped behavior

(4) Any customary observance or practice

(5) The prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies

WiktionaryText

From adjective ritualis, from noun rituum, rite, + adjective suffix -alis.

Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.

They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.