Definition of Ritualise

1. Verb. Make or evolve into a ritual. "The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures"

Exact synonyms: Ritualize
Generic synonyms: Formalise, Formalize
Derivative terms: Ritual, Ritual

Definition of Ritualise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of ritualize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ritualise

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ritters
ritting
rittmannite
ritts
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ritual abuses
ritual dance
ritual dancing
ritual killing
ritual servitude
ritualic
ritualisation
ritualise (current term)
ritualised
ritualises
ritualising
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ritualisms
ritualist
ritualistic
ritualistic behaviour
ritualistically
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ritualization
ritualizations
ritualize
ritualized

Literary usage of Ritualise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers by Richard Holt Hutton (1894)
"... excepting only liberty to ritualise, which somehow the Dean never could get himself to advocate, though he took no active part, I believe, ..."

2. The Irish Quarterly Review (1855)
"... ritualise, to degrade, and to harden the higher faculties, that a course of grosser sensualism would have to corrupt the lower faculties. ..."

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