How To Use religious rite In A Sentence
- Kahler also discovered that the gatekeeper was using the mausoleum as a place for Taoist priests to hold their religious rites.
- In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
- With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
- We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
- No need was felt to perform religious rites for the dead pilgrims and devotees.
- The recipient must be an American boy or girl celebrating a religious rite: a first communion, confirmation, bar or bat mitzvah.
- The Christian convert is on trial for “practicing non-Muslim religious rites without a license,” a charge that her lawyer says does not exist in Algerian criminal law. Archive 2008-06-01
- The village was unable to help him, however, despite the number of religious rites they enacted.
- The Druids were known by name, but scarcely more than by name, to the Greeks, who derived the appellation erroneously from _drus_, an oak, under the supposition that the Druids preferred to perform their religious rites under the shadows of oaken groves. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
- The earth is sacred, and no ploughing or sowing or reaping can take place without some religious rite.
