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- English Word Ritardando Definition Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.
- English Word Rite Definition 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.
- English Word Ritenuto Definition Held back; holding back; ritardando.
- English Word Ritornelle Definition Alt. of Ritornello
- English Word Ritornello Definition A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song.
- English Word Ritornello Definition A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.
- English Word Ritratto Definition A picture.
- English Word Ritual Definition Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
- English Word Ritual Definition A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
- English Word Ritual Definition Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.
- English Word Ritual Definition A book containing the rites to be observed.
- English Word Ritualism Definition A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
- English Word Ritualism Definition Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
- English Word Ritualist Definition One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
- English Word Ritualistic Definition Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
- English Word Ritually Definition By rites, or by a particular rite.
- English Word Rivage Definition A bank, shore, or coast.
- English Word Rivage Definition A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
- English Word Rival Definition A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
- English Word Rival Definition One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
- English Word Rival Definition Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
- English Word Rival Definition To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
- English Word Rival Definition To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
- English Word Rival Definition To be in rivalry.
- English Word Rivaled Definition of Rival
- English Word Rivaless Definition A female rival.
- English Word Rivaling Definition of Rival
- English Word Rivality Definition Rivalry; competition.
- English Word Rivality Definition Equality, as of right or rank.
- English Word Rivalled Definition of Rival