(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.
Cortege
Definition:
(n.) A train of attendants; a procession.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was five when taken on a dark winter morning to see George VI’s funeral cortege pass by.
(2) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
(3) Belaïd's death was described in his cortege as a new type of political murder.
(4) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
(5) I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege.
(6) At noon, the cortege is due to leave the University of Leicester, where the archaeologists and academics have studied and guarded the monarch’s mortal remains since they were excavated from a council car park in August 2012.
(7) A factory was turned into a chapel today for the funeral of the Segway scooter owner Jimi Heselden, whose hundreds of workers lined the goods delivery bay and staff car park as his cortege arrived draped in flowers.
(8) The protest was led by a group dressed in black suits and masks and carrying umbrellas and briefcases to represent financial speculators, acting as the head of a funeral cortege mourning the death of Europe.
(9) This past Thursday, when Senator Kennedy's funeral cortege wound the 90 miles from the family compound on Cape Cod up to Boston, it made its way through a landscape littered with memorials to his siblings, his parents and his grandparents: Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial School; the Kennedy Federal Building; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway (which is built over the old John F Fitzgerald expressway); the Robert Kennedy School; the JFK Presidential Library.
(10) As the funeral cortege made its way up Seville Place, flanked by five garda motorbike outriders, a train on the railway bridge over the street suddenly halted while thousands all around clapped and cheered.
(11) When recently his remains were brought home from New York for reburial, a military honour guard met the cortege and he was given a hero’s funeral.
(12) Even as her funeral procession wound through London streets some faced the cortege and bowed their heads in respect; others turned their backs.
(13) According to the Times of India newspaper, the funeral cortege took three hours to cover the five miles to the river from their ancestral home because of the crowds.
(14) Maclean is to be found in Eastwood cemetery in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he was taken in 1923 with a crowd of thousands following the cortege.
(15) There was gentle clapping as the cortege, with police motorcycle escort, drove slowly through cordoned-off streets.
(16) When we reflect on Bieber's Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality.
(17) Recently, I was travelling to visit my sick mother in hospital and they closed the road for an hour because Putin's cortege was taking him somewhere to drink tea with someone.
(18) Undeterred by heavy rain, about 100,000 people lined a 15km (nine-mile) route through the city-state to catch a glimpse of the funeral cortege.
(19) After he fled the capital, Yanukovych said, "bandits" had opened fire on his cortege, injuring one of his security officers.
(20) Three shootings over the weekend included the killing of a mourner at the wake for an earlier gun crime victim, whose cortege had been given a police escort amid fears of trouble.