ritualist

NOUN
  1. an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms
  2. a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies
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  • Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
  • Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory.
  • Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct.
  • It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead. SACRAMENT
  • But the publisher I had at the time (the late Mr. George Bentley) assured me that if I wrote another 'spiritualistic' book, I should lose the public hearing I had just gained. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
  • It is customary, almost ritualistic, to conclude a paper like this with a call for more research, to broaden the sample, and so on.
  • He was a spiritualist medium who purportedly was able to levitate as well as summon spirits. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is ironic that in an issue devoted to the preservation of salmon you glorify the ritualistic hunting and consumption of them.
  • After making an international name for himself, he spent several years exposing phony spiritualists and mediums.
  • spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers 'stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable -- as they will probably be again some day. The Ancien Regime
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