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noun
1.
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use: rites of baptism; sacrificial rites.
2.
a particular form or system of religious or other ceremonial practice: the Roman rite.
3.
(often initial capital letter) one of the historical versions of the Eucharistic service: the Anglican Rite.
4.
(often initial capital letter) liturgy.
5.
EXPAND(sometimes initial capital letter) Eastern Church, Western Church. a division or differentiation of churches according to liturgy.
6.
COLLAPSEany customary observance or practice: the rite of afternoon tea.
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Rite
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Example Sentences
- The history begins with a moment-by-moment description of the rite of baptism.
- We should also acknowledge that losing professors need not be an inevitable rite of spring.
- Hospital surgeries reduce the infection rate, but many boys opt for the old rite.
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Word Origin & History
rite
early 14c., from L. ritus "religious observance or ceremony, custom, usage," perhaps from PIE base *re(i)- "to count, number" (cf. Gk. arithmos "number," O.E. rim "number"). Rite of passage (1909) is translated from Fr. rite de passage, coined by French anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (18731957).
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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rite
the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behaviour exhibited by all known societies. It is thus possible to view ritual as a way of defining or describing humans.
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