Synonyms for Rite
raɪtrite

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1. rite

   Any religious act, especially a public act, viewed as a means of serving God is called a service; the word commonly includes the entire series of exercises of a single occasion of public worship. A religious service ordained as an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace is called a sacrament. Ceremony is a form expressing reverence, or at least respect; we may speak of religious ceremonies, the ceremonies of polite society, the ceremonies of a coronation, an inauguration, etc. An observance has more than a formal obligation, reaching or approaching a religious sacredness; a stated religious observance, viewed as established by authority, is called an ordinance; viewed as an established custom, it is a rite. The terms sacrament and ordinance, in the religious sense, are often used interchangeably; the ordinance derives its sacredness from the authority that ordained it, while the sacrament possesses a sacredness due to something in itself, even when viewed simply as a representation or memorial. The Lord's Supper is the Scriptural name for the observance commemorating the death of Christ; the word communion is once applied to it (1 Cor. x, 16), but not as a distinctive name; at an early period, however, the name communion was so applied, as denoting the communing of Christians with their Lord, or with one another. The term eucharist describes the Lord's Supper as a thanksgiving service; it is also called by preeminence the sacrament, as the ratifying of a solemn vow of consecration to Christ.

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, communion, eucharist, Lord's Supper, observance, ordinance, sacrament, service, solemnity

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1. rite

   Synonyms:
   form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration

   Antonyms:
   inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance, noncelebration, desuetude

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. rite, religious ritenoun

   an established ceremony prescribed by a religion

   "the rite of baptism"

   Synonyms:
   religious rite, rite, ritual

2. ritual, ritenoun

   any customary observance or practice

   Synonyms:
   religious rite, rite, ritual

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1. • Custom

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1. ritenoun

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, form, observance, ordinance, solemnity, ceremonial, formulary, sacrament

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1. ritenoun

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, ordinance

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1. List of paraphrases for "rite":

   ritual, rhyme, ceremony

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1. Hassan Tepa:

   In our culture, Sapana is the most important rite for a man to be able to gain authority within his community.

2. Assassins creed rogue Shay patric Cormac:

   Uphold the principles of our order and all that for which we stand, never share our secrets nor divulge the true nature of our work. Do so, until death - whatever the cost. This is my new creed. I am Shay Patrick Cormac, Templar of the Colonial... of the American rite. I am an older man now, and perhaps wiser. A war and a revolution have ended, and another is about to begin. May the father of understanding guide us all.

3. John Breen:

   Without anyone blinking an eye ... it became a state rite.

4. Al Cadenhead:

   It sounded as legitimate as could be, they knew where I was. He told me where to go -- to the Rite Aid, up two streets turn left to the Rite Aid. The names of the streets, it was really just incredible.

5. Fox Business host Cavuto:

   For Fox Business, this is an important rite of passage, i don't want to screw it up.