Definition of Ritualesm
Ritualism, respect for forms in the conduct of religious worship,
particularly in connection with the administration of the sacraments of
the Church, under the impression or on the plea that they minister, as
they were ordained in certain cases to minister, to the quickening and
maintenance of the religious life.
- Wikipedia
Rit"u*al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
ritualisme.] 1. A system founded upon a
ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or
observance of, a ritual.
2. Specifically :(a) The
principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the
development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a
return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar
cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in
the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden
by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog
Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of
those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this
party in the Church of England.
Rit"u*al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F.
ritualisme.] 1. A system founded upon a
ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or
observance of, a ritual.
2. Specifically :(a) The
principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the
development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a
return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar
cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in
the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden
by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog
Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of
those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this
party in the Church of England.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear
freedom, keeping off the grass.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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