(a.) Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main therapies are i. suggestion, auto-suggestion, hynotism, assurance, persuasion, and ritualistic therapy; ii.
(2) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(3) Their condemnation of inquiring journalism is age old, almost ritualistic.
(4) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
(5) It's unusually intuitive, for a ritualistic process, but the question left hanging is: why celebrate both?
(6) An established obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in a twenty-six-year-old woman, characterized by obsessional fear of rat germs and ritualistic cleansing, was observed to worsen during pregnancy.
(7) Significantly more positive changes in behavior problems were reported for the experimental group than for the control group (untreated group) in each of the four symptom categories assessed (disturbances in perception, in speech and in social interaction and obsessive-compulsive or ritualistic behavior).
(8) Benzecry skillfully uses the colours in his giant orchestra to depict nature, water, evocations of forests, thunder, as well as ritualistic dances.
(9) We describe two patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) and disabling obsessive-compulsive and ritualistic behaviors who underwent bilateral radiofrequency anterior cingulotomy.
(10) After daily ingestion, ritualistic vomiting by male Achuar Indians, better known as Jívaros, reduces excessive caffeine intake, so that blood levels of caffeine and biotransformed dimethylxanthines do not cause undesirable CNS and other effects.
(11) There are the priestly Jungians who might be considered 'classical' Jungians who have almost ritualistically tried to recreate what he represented, even bringing in the Swiss cultural background.
(12) Fred Goodwin has been ritualistically stripped of his knighthood – and that's about it.
(13) With his inquiry team reaching its first conclusions, which are due to be unveiled in detail in September, he told the Guardian: "The central issue is how do we release more land in this country – a country that has developed urban containment to ritualistic proportions and in a country that devotes more land to golf courses than it does to homes.
(14) The ritualistic manner, closeness of events in time and absence of serious exogenous factors suggest the term 'family suicide'.
(15) During her tenure as the chief inspector of social work, she oversaw investigations into allegations of ritualistic sex abuse in the Western Isles and social services’ failure to monitor Colyn Evans, a teenage sex offender who grew up in care and went on to kill 16-year-old Karen Dewar in Fife.
(16) It is concluded that, not-withstanding these problems, casuistry represents a promising alternative to the regnant model of 'applied ethics' (i.e., to the ritualistic invocation of the so-called 'principles of bioethics').
(17) The purpose of this study was to examine the stress responses of parents to the sexual and ritualistic abuse of their children in day-care centers.
(18) The number of cases of religious or ritualistic abuse of children reported to Scotland Yard has increased year-on-year over the past decade.
(19) First, TM patients reported a significantly greater degree of pleasure during hair-pulling than OCD patients reported during performance of ritualistic behaviors.
(20) Obsessive preoccupation with images of food as well as ruminative calorie counting, and ritualistic behavior regarding food, use of laxatives, and vomiting, together with an underlying focus on control, undoing and other obsessive-compulsive defenses, and a sado-masochistic orientation to the body all point to an essential obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Ritually
Definition:
(adv.) By rites, or by a particular rite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the years it has become something of a Westminster ritual.
(2) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(3) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(4) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
(5) The unprogrammed component of patient ritual involvement differs between the two settings, while the formal ritual 'script' is identical.
(6) When it happens, it will be Africa's first clinic specifically for performing FGM-restoration surgery, including clitoroplasty – a highly symbolic act at the heart of a region where the ritual is prevalent.
(7) A total of 77 families with an adolescent member completed the Family Ritual Questionnaire, and the adolescents completed a measure of self-esteem.
(8) Our behavioral studies have identified a number of conditioned psychophysiological responses associated with the self-injection ritual.
(9) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(10) Critics of initiation say traditional leaders have failed to update their teachings from the times when the ritual was put in place to select and grade warriors.
(11) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(12) The Digo healer applies hypnosis, somatiic exercises, stimulating music, and drugs in his three-day ritual performed mainly for psychosomatic and chronic illness.
(13) Real-life exposure with self-imposed response prevention is usually an effective procedure for lasting reduction of chronic compulsive rituals in well motivated patients.
(14) Mr Major and Mr Blair ritually made light of the poll results but Dr Mawhinney led Tory claims that ICM's private findings for them were consistent with its public work for the Guardian.
(15) The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, conservation, processing, cooking and particularly the sharing and consumption of food.
(16) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(17) Such rituals of authority, though virtually abolished in Britain, may well exist in a different form in present day residential institutions for children in some Third World countries that have borrowed from now outdated European practices.
(18) So too will the evening ritual of spreading out a plastic sheet over a bed to turn it into a dining table.
(19) The functions subserved by possession behaviour are reviewed, and comparisons are drawn between personal possession, ritual possession, and altered states of consciousness in Western society.
(20) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.