Ceremonial

Definitions

A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Curt’sies, and the usual Ceremonials between Women who are Strangers to each other being past, Sophia said, ‘I have⟳ not the Pleasure to know⟳ you, Madam.’”

“Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give⟳ majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter⟳ of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.”

“There was little ceremonial to mark⟳ the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train⟳ left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon.”

“I have⟳ been in favour of ceremonial and patterns all my life, and I have⟳ no desire to break⟳ the funeral pattern.”

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