ceremony
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
ceremony (plural ceremonies)
- A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Six, Canto 8, pp. 463-464,
- To whom the Priest with naked armes full net
- Approching nigh, and murdrous knife well whet,
- Gan mutter close a certaine secret charme,
- With other diuelish ceremonies met:
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Book of Numbers 9:3,
- In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep [the passover] in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
- 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, London: Macmillan, Volume I, Chapter 1, p. 1,
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Six, Canto 8, pp. 463-464,
- An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
- a graduation ceremony, an opening ceremony
- (uncountable) A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4,
- […] to feed were best at home;
- From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
- Meeting were bare without it.
- 1928, W. Somerset Maugham, “Miss King” in Ashenden: Or the British Agent, New York: Avon, 1943, p. 37,
- Monsieur Bridet, notwithstanding his costume and his evident harrassment, found in himself the presence of mind to remain the attentive manager, and with ceremony effected the proper introduction.
- 1959, C. S. Forester, The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, London: Michael Joseph,
- They went into the bars and interrupted the drinking, hustling the men out without ceremony.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4,
- (uncountable) Show of magnificence, display, ostentation.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 752-756,[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_I]
- Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command
- Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony
- And trumpet’s sound, throughout the host proclaim
- A solemn council forthwith to be held
- At Pandemonium […]
- 1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, Volume II, Chapter 46, p. 254,
- Immediately after her arrival, the queen rode forth to survey the camp and its environs: wherever she went, she was attended by a splendid retinue; and all the commanders vied with each other, in the pomp and ceremony with which they received her.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 752-756,[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_I]
- (obsolete) An accessory or object associated with a ritual.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V (play), Act IV, Scene 1,
- […] his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man […]
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2,
- […] Well, believe this,
- No ceremony that to great ones ’longs,
- Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
- The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
- Become them with one half so good a grace
- As mercy does.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V (play), Act IV, Scene 1,
- (obsolete) An omen or portent.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play), Act II, Scene 1,
- For he is superstitious grown of late,
- Quite from the main opinion he held once
- Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play), Act II, Scene 2,
- Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
- Yet now they fright me.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (play), Act II, Scene 1,
- French: cérémonie
- German: Zeremonie, feierliche Handlung, Ritual
- Italian: cerimonia
- Portuguese: cerimónia (Portugal), cerimônia (Brazil)
- Russian: церемо́ния
- Spanish: ceremonia
- French: cérémonie
- German: Feier, Zeremonie
- Italian: cerimonia
- Portuguese: cerimónia (Portugal), cerimônia (Brazil)
- Russian: церемо́ния
- Spanish: ceremonia
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