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ritualism
(encz) | ritualism,rituálnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Ritualism
(gcide) | Ritualism \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.
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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.
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ritualism
(wn) | ritualism
n 1: the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
2: exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or
ritualistic forms in worship |
ritualism
(devil) | RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear
freedom, keeping off the grass.
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ritualism
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spiritualism
(encz) | spiritualism,spiritismus Jaroslav Šedivý |
Spiritualism
(gcide) | Spiritualism \Spir"it*u*al*ism\, n.
1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
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2. (Physiol.) The doctrine, in opposition to the
materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul --
that what is called the external world is either a
succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity,
as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the
mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
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3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with
mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or
during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like,
commonly manifested through a person of special
susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines
and practices of spiritualists.
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What is called spiritualism should, I think, be
called a mental species of materialism. --R. H.
Hutton.
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ritualism
(wn) | ritualism
n 1: the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
2: exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or
ritualistic forms in worship |
spiritualism
(wn) | spiritualism
n 1: (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence
of God
2: the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate
with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
3: concern with things of the spirit [syn: spirituality,
spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness] [ant:
worldliness] |
ritualism
(devil) | RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear
freedom, keeping off the grass.
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