Definition of rite

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Rite (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry..

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Contrite :: Contrite (n.) A contrite person.
Bibliographer :: Bibliographer (n.) One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography..
Cabrerite :: Cabrerite (n.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain..
Innovation :: Innovation (n.) A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites..
Odist :: Odist (n.) A writer of an ode or odes.
Orator :: Orator (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator..
Great-hearted :: Great-hearted (a.) High-spirited; fearless.
Zietrisikite :: Zietrisikite (n.) A mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. It is found at Zietrisika, Moldavia, whence its name..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..
Patrimonial :: Patrimonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate..
Bright :: Bright (v. i.) See Brite, v. i..
Indite :: Indite (v. i.) To compose; to write, as a poem..
Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..
Pilentum :: Pilentum (n.) An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried..
Caret :: Caret (n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret..
Commentate :: Commentate (v. t. & i.) To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.
Preteriteness :: Preteriteness (n.) Same as Preteritness.
Leucopyrite :: Leucopyrite (n.) A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron..
Hauberk :: Hauberk (v. t.) A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon..
Paphian :: Paphian (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites..
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