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ceremonial, a. and n.|sɛrɪˈməʊnɪəl|
Forms: 4 cerimonial, -yal, cerymonial, (sermonyal), 5 ceremonyalle, cerymonyal, 5–7 ceremoniall, 6 ceremonyall, cerimoniall, 5– ceremonial.
[ad. L. cærimōniāl-is (3rd c.), f. cærimōnia: see -al1. So mod.F. cérémonial (16th c. in Littré).]
A. adj.
1. Relating to, consisting of, or characterized by ceremonies; of the nature of a ceremony or rite; ritual; formal.
138.Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 57 Kepyng of þe Sabot was sumwhat a comandement and sumwhat cerymonial, to figure þat Christ shuld reste in þe tombe al þe satirdai. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 392/1 To accomplysshe the commaundementes ceremonyalles of the feythe. 1545Brinklow Lament. (1874) 87 A vayne supersticious cerimoniall Masse. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 6 The ceremoniall rites of marriage. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 288 A curate that will keep the ceremonial law. 1755Adair Amer. Ind. 106 Speaking certain old ceremonial words. 1853Robertson Serm. iv. xix. (1876) 248 The ceremonial law, which constrains life by customs. 1883Gilmour Mongols xxvi. 316 The head lama..in his most imposing ceremonial costume.
b. Relating to or involving the formalities of social intercourse.
1549Compl. Scot. xvii. 145 Ther vas no ceremonial reuerens nor stait, quha suld pas befor or behynd. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 1 ⁋2 Such ceremonial modes of entrance. 1851Dixon W. Penn xxiv. (1872) 214 Laying on one side all ceremonial manners.
†2. Of persons: Addicted to ceremony or ritual; precise in observance of forms of politeness; formal, ceremonious. Obs.
1579Fulke Conf. Sanders 550 A ceremoniall and superstitious man. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 152 Very magnificall and ceremoniall in his outward comportement. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 357 They quote Ambrose, Augustin, and some other ceremonial Doctors.
B. n.
†1. A ceremonial commandment or ordinance.
1382Wyclif Prol. Bible ii, The old testament is departid..in to moral comaundementis, iudicials, and cerimonyals. c1449Pecock Repr. v. viii. 526 God ordeyned the ceremonialis and the iudicialis..to the Iewis. 1621R. Johnson Way to Glory 35 If, then, tythes be neither ceremonials nor judicials, they must needes be morals.
2. A prescribed system of ceremonies; a series of rites or formalities observed on any occasion; a ritual. rarely, A rite or ceremony.
1672–9Temple Mem. ii, I remember no other points of the ceremonial, that seem to have been established by the course of this assembly. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 78. ⁋6 To adjust the ceremonial of death. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. x. 214 The ceremonial prescribed in the Anglican service. 1840G. S. Faber Regen. 150 The use of water is not a mere empty ceremonial. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lix. 308 No ceremonial could be at once more useless and more mischievous.
3. A usage of formal courtesy or politeness; the observance of conventional forms in social intercourse; = ceremony 2, 3.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xvi. viii, The two ladies..after very short previous ceremonials, fell to business. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 23 Apr., Maintaining a ceremonial more stiff, formal, and oppressive than the etiquette of a German Elector. 1858Gladstone Homer II. ii. 69 We do not hear a great deal respecting mere ceremonial among the Olympian divinities.
†4. A robe or garment worn on some ceremonial occasion; = ceremony 4. Obs.
c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1827) 122 The ceremony [the installation of Lord Robert Dudley as Earl of Leicester] took place at Westminster, herself [Elizabeth] helping to put on his ceremonial.
5. R.C. Ch. The order for rites and ceremonies, or a book containing this.
1612E. Grimstone tr. Matthieu's Heroyk Life i. 31 This is a History, not a Ceremoniall. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The Roman ceremonial was first published by the bishop of Corcyra in 1516. |