Definition of Ceremonial

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Ceremonial

Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.

Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]

A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.

The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.

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Ceremonial Quotations

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
Felix Adler

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
J. L. Austin

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Franz Boas

Ceremonial Translations

ceremonial in German is zeremoniell, feierlich
ceremonial in Italian is solenne, cerimoniale
ceremonial in Norwegian is seremoniell
ceremonial in Spanish is ceremonial, solemne

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