ritualize

How To Use ritualize In A Sentence

• Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
• Were they spiritualized, minimized, or did they fail to find fulfillment only because of the failure of the restoration to materialize?
• Sri Aurobindo's "prescription for a spiritualized aesthesis" rids us from the burden of "responsibility" dogging or any nagging sense of lack or guilt. Archive 2008-03-01
• But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
• -- despiritualize me completely -- does it mean eventual barrenness, eventual remorse, failure? Flappers and Philosophers
• The convenient thing in the traditional Christian Tradition is their distance from their revelations, they can try and "spiritualize" things like the flood or the miracles. Romney Blasts McCain! Presidential Race Underway
• It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it. Biographical Essays
• Miracle stories per se may be crude renderings of the seamless and spiritual way in which God truly responds to the world but, when properly spiritualized, they take on value.
• At the beginning of the bullfight, or corrida, the torero sizes up the bull while performing certain ritualized motions with his cape.
• At lunch today we spoke a little about prasadam, vegetarian foods that have been spiritualized by being offered to Krishna in the temple.