Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a ceremony of or put in the form of a ceremony.
- transitive verb To put into a prescribed and socially acceptable form or order.
- transitive verb Zoology To cause (behavior) to have the form of a ritual.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To arrange and supply a ritual for; hamper with external forms and ceremonies; harden and deaden by ritual.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US To make into a
ritual .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make or evolve into a ritual
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Examples
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot Danny Groner 2011
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This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival.
Danny Groner: The High Price Of Sukkot Danny Groner 2011
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With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and ritualize our love of life.
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: What Would A 'Conscious Judaism' Look Like? Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2011
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If you don't ritualize a specific bedtime, you'll end up finding ways to stay up later, just the way you do now.
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With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and ritualize our love of life.
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: What Would A 'Conscious Judaism' Look Like? Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2011
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The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them - build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
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Over the ages, customs and myths have arisen to encourage -- to ritualize -- a summer mating season in order to ensure a successful procreation.
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With that in mind, we encouraged the managers to focus on reducing their alcohol intake during their evening meetings, ritualize morning exercise, eat more often and more lightly, and go to sleep at a designated and reasonable hour.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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Love in the world made by Moran was filled with threats of violence, bullying efforts to control and the need to ritualize.
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Over the ages, customs and myths have arisen to encourage -- to ritualize -- a summer mating season in order to ensure a successful procreation.
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