Meaning of Ceremonial | Babel Free

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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