Definition of religious ceremony Religious ceremony
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What does religious ceremony mean?
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| religious ceremony - a ceremony having religious meaning | ||
| religious ritual | ||
| ceremony any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony" | ||
| love feast, agape a social gathering intended to create goodwill among the participants | ||
| religious rite, rite an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism" | ||
| divine service, religious service, service the performance of duties by a waiter or servant; "that restaurant has excellent service" | ||
| sacrament a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | ||
| confirmation a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | ||
| sanctification a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | ||
| religious offering, oblation the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist | ||
| inunction, unction anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | ||
| libation the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony | ||
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