Definition of ceremonious

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Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.

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Abrupt :: Abrupt (a.) Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
Comply :: Comply (v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
Escort :: Escort (n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon..
Distance :: Distance (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness..
Formal :: Formal (a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation..
Bounce :: Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment..
Present :: Present (a.) To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over..
Formally :: Formally (adv.) In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
Blunt :: Blunt (a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Solemnity :: Solemnity (n.) Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.
Ceremonious :: Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
Bluff :: Bluff (a.) Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain..
Procession :: Procession (n.) That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession..
Ceremoniousness :: Ceremoniousness (n.) The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious..
Precisian :: Precisian (n.) An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
Bounce :: Bounce (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room..
Banquet :: Banquet (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches..
Familiarity :: Familiarity (n.) Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops..
Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (a.) Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred..
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