(a.) Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.
(a.) Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]
(n.) A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
(n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(2) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(3) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(4) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
(5) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(6) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(7) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
(8) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(9) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(10) Philip and Roger Taylor-Brown, who have been together for three years and have already changed their names by deed poll, registered in Manchester yesterday for a ceremony on December 21.
(11) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
(12) His rise to office came a day after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at D-day commemoration ceremonies in France.
(13) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
(14) Those who wish to turn the tragedy between us, Palestinians and Israel … into a religious war have blood on their hands,” Rivlin, whose post is mainly ceremonial, told journalists.
(15) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
(16) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(17) They marched to the police roadblock, and performed a 21-gun salute for a fallen veteran and a prayer ceremony on the bridge.
(18) The ceremony also produced the most retweeted photograph ever, with Ellen DeGeneres’ “selfie” attracting more than 2m retweets to smash Barack Obama’s record .
(19) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(20) There was no media coverage of the signing, in contrast to the high-profile ceremonies this week when Obama issued his orders on ethics reform and Guantánamo Bay.
Chariot
Definition:
(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
(2) The average fan remains ignorant in terms of it wanting it be Chariots of Fire.
(3) It is possible his delicate skills could have been of more benefit to Arsenal with longer on the pitch, though listening to the Stoke fans serenading their side at the end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "One nil to the rugby team", one could understand why Wenger exercised caution, even if the rugby motif is a joke the home supporters enjoy.
(4) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(5) Mounted bowmen succeeded chariots in warfare, particularly nomadic Scythians who dominated Central Asia (1000-500 BC).
(6) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
(7) He would not have been out of place in Chariots of Fire."
(8) Updated at 10.03pm BST 7.22pm BST The soothing strains of Chariots of Fire come on the stadium stereo ... ... and Poland's Tomasz Majewski collects his gold medal for winning the men's shot put in what was a thrilling competition.
(9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(10) The ropes are heaved, down come the statues, Axes demolish their chariot wheels, the unoffending Legs of their horses are broken.
(11) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
(12) In the summer of 1981, for example – as Andy Beckett recounts in his book Promised You a Miracle – the rhetoric of advertising and film projected a concerted attempt at national revival against the odds: Chariots of Fire and a Mini Metro on the white cliffs of Dover, staving off European rivals.
(13) Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
(14) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
(15) We sing to elevate sporting events – Abide With Me, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(16) Chariots is not the only theatre production currently exploring the world of sport.
(17) Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.
(18) The archaeologists believe it may have come from a chariot, but are only guessing since nothing like it has ever been found.
(19) Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be “nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide” – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing’s agoraphobia-inducing highways.
(20) American financiers in pink shorts and back-to-front baseball caps push the hedge fund managers of 2040 round in thousand-pound chariots, and every second store is an estate agency.” All of this is true.