ritualise
Turn into ceremony
To ritualise is to make something into a ritual—to turn an ordinary action into a formal, repeated practice with symbolic significance.
Communities ritualise major life transitions like birth, marriage, and death.
The word can describe deliberate ceremonial practice or the gradual accumulation of meaning around repeated behavior: Over time, we ritualised our Sunday dinners.
Also spelled ritualize.
Make officially holy
- consecrateMake sacred officially
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- venerationProfound admiring respect
shrine · altar · incense · pilgrimage · devotion · mantra · liturgy · prayer
Regular sequence of actions
- repetitionAct of redoing
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- regularityConsistent, predictable occurrence
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
habituation · daily · practice · custom · discipline · regimen · automatism · ingrained
Organize into formal rules
- standardizeMake things match norms
- systematizeArrange into ordered structure
- institutionalizeEstablish as norm
- prescribeOfficially recommend treatment
establish · structure · regulate · protocol · convention · procedure · formality · legitimize
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- enthronementFormal investiture of sovereign
investiture · consecration · convocation · matrimony · commemoration · induction · installation · initiation
sanctify
Make officially holy
- consecrateMake sacred officially
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
veneration · shrine · altar · incense · pilgrimage · devotion · mantra · liturgy · prayer · offering
routine
Regular sequence of actions
- repetitionAct of redoing
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- regularityConsistent, predictable occurrence
conditioning · habituation · daily · practice · custom · discipline · regimen · automatism · ingrained · second-nature
codify
Organize into formal rules
- standardizeMake things match norms
- systematizeArrange into ordered structure
- institutionalizeEstablish as norm
prescribe · establish · structure · regulate · protocol · convention · procedure · formality · legitimize · normalize
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
enthronement · investiture · consecration · convocation · matrimony · commemoration · induction · installation · initiation · dedication
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
culture · legacy · lore · mythology · customs · lineage · ancestral · ceremonial · generational · time-honoured
ritualiseimprovise
Perform without preparation
ad-lib · freestyle · relax · informalize · wing it
ritualisego with the flow
Accept situations without resistance
act naturally · improvise · wing it · randomise · naturalize
ritualisesecularize
Remove from religious control
demystify · profane · trivialize · secularise · normalize
- ritualistic murderCeremonial taking of life
- ritualistic sacrificeCeremonial killing for divine favor
- ritualistic behaviorFormalized, repetitive symbolic actions
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