Ritualistic Sentence Examples

Kabir denounced idolatry and the ritualistic practices of the Hindus.

If masturbation becomes a compulsive activity and the person is driven to do it at certain times each day and it almost becomes a ritualistic activity, at the exclusion of almost all else.

The act of hair pulling in trichotillomania is often ritualistic.

The confirmation of his appointment was formally opposed on ritualistic grounds by the Protestant Truth Society (see 6.907).

Compulsion-A repetitive or ritualistic behavior that a person performs to reduce anxiety.

In Zambia, young ladies rehearse in seclusion for many months for their ritualistic dance.

In an age of ever expanding technology, using e-cards for what were once very formal, ritualistic events is becoming more acceptable.

There are many reasons for cutting, beginning with tribal and ritualistic purposes.

Among the many cultures who routinely practiced body piercing in bygone days were ancient Mesoamericans like the Aztecs, who pierced tongues as part of ritualistic blood sacrifices.

They seem to engage in ritualistic play instead.

The AS individual may depend on repetition and sameness, following routines may appear to be ritualistic to non-autistic individuals.

Many people with autism practice ritualistic behavior often termed as obsessive and self-stimulating behaviors.

Ritualistic patterns can interfere with the child's ability to tolerate changes in routine.

A key factor is joining your child in his or her ritualistic and repetitive behaviors rather than trying to change them.

Chinese New Year has been celebrated for centuries, and it has become a highly ritualistic, detailed event honoring culture and family.

Now, in considering the body of writings connected with this Veda, we are at once confronted by the fact that there are two different schools, an older and a younger one, in which the traditional body of ritualistic matter has been treated in a very different way.

In the Church of England the use of incense was gradually abandoned after the reign of Edward VI., until the ritualistic revival of the present day.

The result was to make Denison a keen champion of the ritualistic school.

His championship of the voluntary schools, his adroit parliamentary handling of the problems opened up by the so-called "crisis in the Church" caused by the Protestant movement against ritualistic practices, and his pronouncement in favour of a Roman Catholic university for Ireland - for which he outlined a scheme that met with much adverse criticism both from his colleagues and his party, - were the most important aspects of Mr Balfour's activity during these years.

But the Buddha, while rejecting the sacrifices and the ritualistic magic of the brahmin schools, the animistic superstitions of the people, the asceticism and soultheory of the Jains, and the pantheistic speculations of the poets of the pre-Buddhistic Upanishads, still retained the belief in transmigration.

Though, in accounting for the anger of the gods, no sharp distinction is made between moral offences and a ritualistic oversight or neglect, yet the stress laid in the hymns and prayers, as well as in the elaborate atonement ritual prescribed in order to appease the anger of the gods, on the need of being clean and pure in the sight of the higher powers, the inculcation of a proper aspect of humility, and above all the need of confessing one's guilt and sins without any reserve - all this bears testimony to the strength which the ethical factor acquired in the domain of the religion.

The natural consequences followed - a repudiation of what had been done; and the Eastern bishops on their way home took care to make emphatic their ritualistic differences from Rome.

Colenso's Commentary on the Romans in 1861, Wilberforce endeavoured to induce the author to hold a private conference with him; but after the publication of the first two parts of the Pentateuch Critically Examined he drew up the address of the bishops which called on Colenso to resign his bishopric. In 1867 he framed the first Report of the Ritualistic Commission, in which coercive measures against ritualism were discountenanced by the use of the word "restrain" instead of "abolish" or "prohibit."

He also endeavoured to take the sting out of some resolutions of the second Ritualistic Commission in 1868, and was one of the four who signed the Report with qualifications.

Within the temple of Artemis, the virgin goddess, there were ritualistic prostitutes.

The practice of out-of-body journeying was taught through the careful ritualistic use of natural hallucinogens such as hashish and peyote.

Although the ritualistic discussions of the Brahmanas are for the most part of a dry and uninteresting nature to an even greater degree than is often the case with exegetic theological treatises, these works are nevertheless of considerable importance both as regards the history of Indian institutions and as "the oldest body of Indo-European prose, of a generally free, vigorous, simple form, affording valuable glimpses backwards at the primitive condition of unfettered Indo-European talk" (Whitney).

The ritualistic theologians, however, go an important step further by identifying Prajapati with the performer, or patron, of the sacrifice, the sacrificer; every sacrifice thus becoming invested - in addition to its cosmic significance - with the mystic power of regenerating the sacrificer by cleansing him of all guilt and securing for him a seat in the eternal abodes.

Whilst forming the central feature of the ritualistic symbolism, this triad - Prajapati, sacrifice (oblation, victim), sacrificer - is extended in various ways.

Ellen was disturbed by much of what she saw in the small village in South America, including the macabre ritualistic dance performed by the village leaders.

The exception to this rule is ritualistic dance, however occasionally even then the divide between performer and spectator is blurred.

This ancient ritualistic practice turned contemporary art form suggests that tattooing and other forms of body art may yet endure for thousands more years to come.

He accepted the chairmanship of the Royal Commission on Ritualistic Practices in the Church, and he did valuable work as 'an arbitrator; and though when the fiscal controversy arose he became a member of the Free-food League, his parliamentary loyalty to Mr Balfour did much to prevent the Unionist free-traders from precipitating a rupture.

Animal sacrifice, libations, ritualistic purification, sprinkling of water, and symbolical rites of all kinds accompanied by short prayers, represent a religious practice which in the Babylonian-Assyrian religion, as in all religions, is older than any theology and survives the changes which the theoretical substratum of the religion undergoes.

Ritualistic conservatism may be instanced as a practical outcome of this feeling.

There is, however, no mention of ceremonial candles in the detailed account of the services of the Church of England given by William Harrison (Description of England, 1570); and the attitude of the Church towards their use, until the ritualistic movement of the 17th century, would seem to be authoritatively expressed in the Third Part of the Sermon against Peril of Idolatry, which quotes with approval the views of Lactantius and compares " our Candle Religion " 3 This is common to the Eastern Church also.

The usage in this respect in some " ritualistic " churches is a revival of pre-Reformation ceremonial.

The legislative and statistical and especially the ritualistic parts belonging to P are so detailed and uninteresting that they make no impression on a reader's memory, and P's diffuseness, always undue, reaches a climax in chap. vii.