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Field research abroad for an extended period is still an obligatory rite de passage for all its practitioners.
Although the church is closer theologically to Constantinople than to Rome, its rite includes Latin as well as Byzantine elements.
Hallmarks of the rite include paschal essence, pneumatic nature, corporate understanding, Eucharistic context, and ritual character.
Drinking a pint or two of sweet cider in the belief that it is the elixir of adulthood is a rite of passage every teenager undergoes.
These specified readings and the sermon or homily that follows are meant to nourish the congregation at prayer in the rite that includes them.
After sixteen summers a child of the plain, no matter what gender or tribe, goes through the rite of passage.
What the church does, then, when it conducts the wedding rite or the ordination rite is clear enough.
Attending to political perceptions and consequences, while not unimportant, is nowhere to be found in the rite of episcopal ordination.
The rubrical indications of the entrance rite make clear that this is to be seen primarily as a musical part of the rite.
They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
The elements brought to it by the Arrernte at Santa Teresa infused the rite with an unfamiliar vitality.
On the other hand, when not involved in such discussions, they have, like the Baptists of the nineteenth century, made little of the rite.
An exorcism is a religious rite for driving Satan or evil spirits out of a possessed person, place, or thing.
The earth is sacred, and no ploughing or sowing or reaping can take place without some religious rite.
There are many types of samskaras, from the rite prior to conception to the funeral ceremony.
Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
With teen boys, their rite of passage is getting their first girlie magazine and talking about it with their buddies.
Harry's first test is an initiation rite intended to reveal Harry's primary characteristics and place him with others of his ilk.
Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
It is at once a coming of age story, a rite of passage, a road trip and a buddy movie.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The natives of curium made it a rule to destroy all such, under an appearance of a religious rite.
Also, fasting may be a piacular rite or an ascetic one, according to the circumstances.
Father and daughter were seated in the arbored veranda at the daily solemn rite of tea.
But in reality, the probational function of the rite is only another aspect of its efficacy.
And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.
Nor can the plant which the Parsis still import from Persia for the haoma rite be identical with the old soma.
The emasculation is a secret rite and takes place under the direction of the chief hijra priest of Behechra.
John Toomey got hit with a hockey block rite in the snoot and broke his nose.
The homa is that sacrificial rite which consists of pouring libations of clarified butter into fire.
The rite of Confirmation has, however, been devitalized, and its immense significance has been almost wholly lost.
First, he does not propose to disjoin absolutely and in all cases the religious rite from the ordinary meal.
The indirectness of a rite makes it more mysterious and magical, and that is a recommendation.
The note of permanency in the chronic rite of disinheritance was startling.
The preliminaries of marriage and the solemnization of the rite itself are a fruitful source of difficulty.
At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.
Did I need such a crowd to help me by holding the lustral victims during the lengthy rite?
I feel most too tired to rite in you tonite, Mr. Diry, but I guess I'll tell you wot made me feel so xerted.
He says as I'm the ony Englishman as he has ewer known who can allus giv a answer rite off to ewery question as he arsks me!
The celibacy of the clergy and the rite of extreme unction are also very unpopular.
When this rite was ended, the music shifted to a livelier key and straightway a farandole was formed.
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