noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
initiation rite/ritual
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initiation rituals for young boys at puberty
last rites
satanic ritual/cult/rite
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The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites .
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They cling to their religion, its strict kosher rules and ancient rites of worship.
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Here, perhaps, within living memory, the ancient rites were enacted and may yet be again.
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Whitewater led to Paula, who led to Monica, who led to the ancient rite of impeachment.
religious
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The presence of stone objects suggested that the site might have been used for religious rites .
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What is difficult for Westerners to grasp is the importance and real meaning of these religious rites .
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There may be special religious rites to be observed.
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Under these circumstances it would not do to conduct religious rites at approximately the same time each year.
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Perhaps the technicians who control the mast are descendants of the shamans who presided over religious rites here.
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And that, I would say, is what we, in our own religious rites , had best be doing too.
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In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
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Often the toga was drawn over his head to make a veil, worn at the performance of religious rites .
roman
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This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup.
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This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite .
sacred
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I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites .
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But Latinus, locked in his palace, was not available for the sacred rite .
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Still others, who are initiated by those making a craft of sacred rites , are worthy of astonishment and pity.
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He had been sent on to bid her make all ready for the sacred rites .
■ NOUN
fertility
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Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite .
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Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites .
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She is an accomplished mage and oversees all the complex fertility rites of Avelorn and Ulthuan.
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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.
funeral
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The Cocopa and the Hopi respectively exemplify extremes of emphasis and of de-emphasis in the observance of funeral rites .
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The question then arises: what purpose do Hopi funeral rites serve?
initiation
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This will be a new experience for Mr Major, the last and hardest of his political initiation rites .
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Spirit baptism was not just an initiation rite , it was a mystical encounter.
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His appearance is essential to the tribes' fertility, and he is petitioned in initiation rites for young boys at puberty.
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Hence, the recourse to alcohol or other drugs, which is commonly featured in initiation rites around the world.
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Your initiation rites do not conceal your destitution.
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Lois was tempted to ask the young man if he thought she had undergone an initiation rite .
■ VERB
give
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So he did what he has become accustomed to doing - gave the last rites .
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But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites .
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Both were given last rites before being taken into the operating room.
perform
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They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden, and perform the rites of the perception of beauty.
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I imagined a sorceress inside performing her rites behind the window, with a red kerchief.
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Upstream and downstream, and on the far bank other villages were performing the same rites .
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She spoke for me: No one performed the proper rites of the dead.
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Finally, they perform rites to obtain children, preferably male, and for the safety and health of their children.
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Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite .
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Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite .
use
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The presence of stone objects suggested that the site might have been used for religious rites .
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Some accounts say the gallae stored them in underground chambers to be used in mystery rites .
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Problems have arisen because of the belief that none of the well-known and loved musical settings could be used in the new rites .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the last rites
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A cleansing rite was performed before building started.
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A priest was called to perform last rites for the dying woman.
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Buddhist rites
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The Batak chieftains perform the traditional initiation rite .
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The body cannot be buried until the funeral rites have been performed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And we find the same thought expressed in the final instructions delivered to the departed in the Ainu rites of burial.
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Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.
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One of these couldn't read or rite .
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Perhaps the technicians who control the mast are descendants of the shamans who presided over religious rites here.
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These rites mark the cycle of life - birth, puberty, marriage, death.
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They are shunned in any auspicious rites, especially marriage.
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This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite .