Word Meanings - RITUALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By rites, or by a particular rite.

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• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• PARTICULARMENT
  A particular; a detail.
• PARTICULARIZATION
  The act of particularizing. Coleridge.
• PARTICULARIST
  One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.
• PARTICULARIZE
  To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.
• PARTICULAR
  Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. Some men are wise; Some men are not wise. Particular average. See under Average.
• QUIRITES
  Roman citizens. Note: After the Sabines and Romans had united themselves into one community, under Romulus, the name of Quirites was taken in addition to that of Romani, the Romans calling themselves in a civil capacity Quirites, while
• SORITES
  An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with
• NAZARITESHIP
  The state of a Nazarite.
• PYRITES
  A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color. Note: The term was originally applied to the mineral pyrite, or iron pyrites, in allusion to its giving sparks when
• PORITES
  An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve- rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
• ANCHORITESS
  An anchoress.
• SUPERPARTICULAR
  Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. Hutton.