(n.) Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies.
(n.) Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.
(n.) A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc.
(n.) A sign or prodigy; a portent.
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.
Matrimony
Definition:
(n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
(n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a test case that significantly expands the media's ability to report on matrimonial hearings, Mrs Justice Roberts has permitted everything conducted in a private hearing to be published for the first time – apart from financial information relating to the couple's personal or business affairs.
(2) On a Muslim matrimonial site, Muslima.com, where he was seeking a second wife, Abdaly, 29, listed Luton as his home, and said he had met his first wife in Bedfordshire.
(3) Catholics will be urged to protect the "true meaning" of matrimony as the Catholic church steps up its campaign against government plans for gay marriage.
(4) The paper analyses results after investigation of free selection of families, parents myopia selected by signs and a definite minimum age of their first-order offsprings, including 108 matrimonial couples with the total number of 209 children.
(5) The essential differences were found in the matrimonial status and the socioprofessional categories.
(6) Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?” In its catechism, the Catholic church brands “homosexual acts … intrinsically disordered” and the pope, while encouraging a more welcoming stance towards gay people, has said nothing that deviates from that.
(7) The data are analyzed with a view to finding differences in the distributions of matrimonial distances among the caste groups, and to examine the relationship of the inbreeding coefficients of these gorups with their mean matrimonial distances and population sizes.
(8) In an attempt to relate the degree of inbreeding to the mean matrimonial distance and population size, it was found that the former is more useful in predicting the degree of inbreeding than population size.
(9) Where better to shake off the taint of matrimonial metaphor and renew their alliance on a more business-like footing than in Basildon?
(10) Data on the distance between the birthplaces of spouses - matrimonial distance - were collected from 2260 married individuals belonging to 21 endogamous castes of the Dhangar (shepherd) caste-cluster of Maharashtra, India.
(11) He said the marriage act is based on important elements of Australian federation and couples bound by it have access to "matrimonial clauses", including divorce.
(12) Thirty men with fertility disorders, 21 to 42 years of age (mean 29 years) and mean duration of sterile matrimony 4 years 7 months received Vitaton treatment.
(13) It is one that is still to be adequately researched and its wounds properly examined (as Paltrow's "love guru" and matrimonial discord adviser, Dr Habib Sadeghi, might say) with appropriate help provided.
(14) Extra-matrimonial conceptions probably often occur, for that reason any statement about fertility of man is inaccurately.
(15) Many of the patients suffered from disturbed matrimonial relations, and 36 lived unmarried, divorced, or widowed.
(16) Further examination is made of the differences in matrimonial differences and inbreeding coefficients in terms of sociocultural norms regulating choice of mates, geographic dispersal of population, and migrational history, concluding that the situation is in conformity with norms prevailing in south and north India.
(17) In the 1970s, we campaigned for the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act which gave women more legal options for escape, and for the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act to include proper provision for women homeless through domestic violence.
(18) This effect cannot be explained by either an association of the smoking habit with malformation, premature birth, exaggerated consumption of coffee matrimonial status or paternal smoking, or by a combination of malformation, prematurity and any one of the other factors.
(19) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(20) The state electoral commission, citing initial results, said 65% of those who voted answered "yes" to the referendum question: "Do you agree that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman?"