semisacred

adjective

Definition of semisacrednext
as in semireligious

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  1. ritual
  2. liturgical
  3. sacramental
Adjective
  • Its narrative turns on an investigation into the ritual murder of a young girl that causes a mass psychosis in a nearby small town that experienced a similar trauma six years earlier.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Inside the house, researchers discovered a small altar containing several ritual objects, including a ceramic container for burning incense, which still held material from its last use two millennia ago.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of ritual
Adjective
  • The church uncritically glomming onto the latest LM for its liturgical, educational, or pastoral work will compound the harm in this area already inflicted by the long, lonely slog of the pandemic.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2024
  • However, the long-standing liturgical celebrations invoked to pick a new pope are fascinating to behold.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of liturgical
Adjective
  • Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
    Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Many of them walk to Mass from nearby apartments and could be cut off from the sacramental life if OLV is shuttered.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
Definition of sacramental
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