I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
initiation rite/ritual
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initiation rituals for young boys at puberty
satanic ritual/cult/rite
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The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.
solemn ritual/ceremony
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Magic Mushrooms Used by the Aztecs in ancient rituals , magic mushrooms are a hallucinogen.
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Others sculpted new statues or built temples or traveled to caves or ruins to revive ancient rituals .
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So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.
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Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images.
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However, I know that experiencing such a unique, ancient ritual is the essence of travelling.
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Subtly satirical of western gullibility towards ancient rituals and superstitions, this is several cuts above standard culture-clash fare.
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The ancient rituals which linked them to fertility and the renewal of life were abandoned.
annual
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It's an annual ritual for the National Trust, as they close down their properties for the winter break.
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The formalities may have remained the same, but the political content had been largely drained from the annual rituals .
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It seems to show the opéra's concluding divertissement enacting this annual ritual , led by Legrand Druide.
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The annual rituals of Orange and Hibernian celebrations were of course occasions when clashes were inevitable.
daily
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Profit warnings have become a daily ritual .
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That will also help establish your telephone call as a daily ritual for connection while you are away.
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Letters avoid this, which is why writing them becomes such an important part of the daily ritual .
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It was a daily ritual to continue for many years.
elaborate
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The elaborate rituals surrounding the preparation of the icon are not without purpose or effect.
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The longer the delivery was delayed, the more elaborate became the rituals and beliefs surrounding the eventual arrival of the ship.
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There are elaborate rituals of atonement to be found there.
primitive
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The Waste Land itself functions as a primitive ritual .
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She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.
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He was also concerned with primitive ritual as underlying developed ritual.
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But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual.
religious
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One needs to study the planning of the buildings, and sculptures and objects normally associated with religious ritual .
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After all, in a secular age when religious rituals have lost meaning for many, the grieving still need comfort.
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The perehera is unlike any other religious ritual in the world because its procession includes up to 100 elephants.
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Our tragedy is that our calendar more and more determines just religious rituals and holidays.
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It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual .
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Some say they formed a complex of sites for religious rituals .
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Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods.
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The church's view, that marriages sanctioned by religious ritual should not be broken, is reflected in divorce laws.
satanic
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Perhaps they could substitute the girl for the goat in whatever Satanic ritual they were planning for later.
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They said parents sexually abused their children as part of a satanic ritual , and that these practices were widespread.
social
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Both social and private rituals that celebrate night, moon, and the changing tides.
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It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work.
traditional
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In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual .
■ NOUN
initiation
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What of our own, where initiation ritual does not exist?
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Yet as serious as this initiation ritual is, it is also fun.
■ VERB
perform
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For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds.
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Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.
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The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals .
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He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.
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So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.
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It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.
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Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After an elaborate ritual , the boys are formally accepted into the tribe.
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Set up a regular time for homework; make it a ritual .
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The ritual is performed in order to thank the Sun Goddess for the rice harvest.
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The book examines rituals for childbirth from different parts of the world.
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The Chinese surround silk with myth and ritual .
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traditional dances and rituals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, in a secular age when religious rituals have lost meaning for many, the grieving still need comfort.
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As part of the ritual , everyone carries the kumquats to the table.
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But, as Marx saw long ago, free-market capitalism is quintessentially populist and inherently subversive of traditions and rituals.
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Once this incorrect impression is accepted and congealed, there is no commanding reason to disrupt the customary rituals of their existence.
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That is the effect of the ritual .
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The cremation ritual was directed mainly at inducing the spirit of the dead person to go on to the afterworld.
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The Western ritual of death was observed - the obligation to remember the most dignified image of the deceased.
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What used to be a real chase had become a ritual .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abuse
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In particular, he denounced the accusations of child-murder and ritual abuse which became standard elements in Viennese demonology in that decade.
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Other kids had histories of ritual abuse .
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The subject is questioning if satanic ritual abuse is fact or fantasy.
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The book is a very powerful communication on ritual abuse and its effects.
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The Reachout Trust prepared a paper on how to spot symptoms of satanic ritual abuse in children.
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It is not known if the original allegations of satanic ritual abuse came from this source.
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They were after signs of ritual abuse .
dance
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Other heroic figures which figure in the monthly ritual dances are equipped in the same way.
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Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
sacrifice
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I was beginning to feel like a ritual sacrifice .
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Studying economics was more a ritual sacrifice .
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The livestock being killed are a ritual sacrifice to the gods of global markets.
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I felt I was being dressed for ritual sacrifice and looked for bloodstains on the gloves.
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All that's missing is the ritual sacrifice-the fatted calf.
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When it is made the object of ritual sacrifice , its extraordinary power is made part of an orderly ritual.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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ritual campaign promises
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ritual prayers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Not quirky little ritual habit-forming, like throwing a pinch of spilled salt over your shoulder, but slow suicide habit-forming.
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Other kids had histories of ritual abuse.
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Prestige was allotted according to the principles of the ritual cycle.
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Tathir, the ritual purification of the social body, requires the destruction of the first and the confinement of the second.