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to ritualize

to ritualize

3 7.6
Make an action into a regular ceremony with fixed steps
  • verb
  • /ˈrɪtʃuəˌlaɪz/
translation icon : ritualizar
  • Before each meal, they ritualize their gratitude by saying a prayer together.
  • ritualized ceremonies
  • ritualized exchanges
  • ritualized events

I think it's helpful to ritualize that or to create a new routine or a new habit, right?

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Examples

  • What was essential was the ritualized cutting of the cake.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The Iroquois ritualized both their losses and increased numbers in their adoption ceremonies.

    Academic text (1995)

  • I think it's helpful to ritualize that or to create a new routine or a new habit, right?

    Ed Mylett

  • Sometimes it can be welcomed by the daily ritualized activity of getting to work.

    Blog text (28)

  • Holiday symbols were used both to dramatize and to ritualize shopping.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Its symbols become cultic objects, and we ritualize specific aspects of the state.

    Blog text (11)

  • In this environment, ritualized yaqona drinking continues to underpin traditional principles of hierarchy.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Fado songs, with their distinct melancholic mood and ritualized performance, helped create an original and romantic ambiance.

    Academic text (2017)

  • By considering the sensoriality of ritualizing, new avenues of inquiry can develop regarding the performative elements of ritual.

    Academic text (2017)

  • When acts, utterances, and events become ritualized or symbolized rather than remaining cognitive and rational, they are frequently more persuasive.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

to solemnize
vsto ritualize
  • Formal
1 8.2

To mark an event with a formal, serious ceremony

makes an action into a formal ceremonial practice

How Ritualized

to solemnize
  • Formal
1 8.2
to ritualize
3 7.6
to formalize
  • US
15 4.9
repeat
132 1.0
to perform
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

ritualize infinitive
ritualized past
ritualized past participle
ritualizing present participle
ritualizes third person singular

Morphology

ritualize = ritual (transparent) = ritual + ize

The productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' combines with the noun 'ritual' to mean 'make into a ritual', which is directly predictable.

Etymology

Ritualize comes from ritual, through the older word rite meaning 'ceremony', plus the ending -ize meaning 'make', like in finalize. So to ritualize something is to make it into a ceremony or give it formal, repeated actions.