ritually
3
6.4
- adverb
- /ˈrɪtʃuəli/
:
ritualmente
- Sometimes the land returned into tillage was ritually plowed to symbolize its return to the memorial community.
- ritually purified
- ritually prescribed
- ritually killed
Examples
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Quarrels were brought before the elders to judge the conflict and ritually discipline the guilty.
Academic text (2001) -
I also knew someone who consumed rugelach every day, almost ritually, with a cake fork.
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Except in the Central Thai case, households do not appear to be ritually autonomous.
Academic text (1992) -
The second, because it is a ritually framed kind of disorder, does not carry the same threat of uncertainty.
Academic text (1998) -
For the dead are ghosts that come back ritually; they are revenants.
Academic text (1997) -
Today, the only blood offering comes from ritually slaughtered turkeys.
Academic text (2008) -
There is a cave in the north called the Pit of Bones where they even ritually disposed of their dead.
Fiction book (2002) -
Instead, Central Thai households are tied politically, economically, and ritually to powerful outsiders.
Academic text (1992) -
In Ghanaian performance, mediums would undergo a long seclusion in order to be ritually cleansed for the dance performance.
Academic text (2000) -
The community ritually gathers every spring to celebrate the harvest festival together.
Synonyms
3
6.6
In a formal way that follows a ritual or custom
2
4.6
In a formal way during a ceremony
1
8.0
In a regular way that follows the same routine every time
1
7.9
Following the set words and actions of a religious service
How Ritualistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ritually comes from the simple word rite, which means 'a formal or religious action', so picture people doing the same steps again and again in a ceremony. That's why to do something ritually is to do it as part of a ceremony or in a fixed, repeated way.