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OBSERVANCES |
Religious rites |
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LITURGY |
Form of religious rites |
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HINDUISM |
The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos;
Brahmanism. |
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HEATHENISM |
The religious system or rites of a heathen nation;
idolatry; paganism. |
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SOLEMN |
Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or
connected with, religion; sacred. |
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IMPOSE |
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of
confirmation and ordination. |
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JUDAISM |
The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined
in the laws of Moses. |
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CULTUS |
Established or accepted religious rites or
usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2. |
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SYNAGOGUE |
A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose
of worship, or the performance of religious rites. |
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SERVICE |
Office of devotion; official religious duty performed;
religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial
service. |
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SANCTIFY |
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or
religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. |
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INCENSE |
The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when
burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. |
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ASIARCH |
One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of
Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious
rites. |
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GENS |
A clan or family connection, embracing several families of
the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious
rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe. |
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FRIEND |
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward
rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and
esp. by oppos... |
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SUPERSTITION |
An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme
Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice;
extreme and unnecessary... |
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FRANKINCENSE |
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as
an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best
kinds now come from Eas... |