adj. 1 ceremonial, ceremonious, sacramental The celebrants undergo ritual washing before preparing the sacrifice 2 procedural, formal, conventional, customary, habitual, routine, prescribed, usual, automatic, perfunctory Each time they meet, Harold and Bill have to go through a ritual handshaking routine - a hangover from their school-days, I think
n. 3 formality, routine, custom, practice, convention, protocol If everyone goes through this tea-drinking ritual twice a day, how do you get any work done? 4 See rite, above