different between ceremonious vs ceromonial

English

From Middle French cérémonieux, from Late Latin caerimoniosus, from Latin caerimonia.

ceremonious (comparative more ceremonious, superlative most ceremonious)

Fond of ceremony, ritual or strict etiquette; punctilious
- 1608, Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-Light in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London, J.M. Dent, 1936, p. 163, [1]
  […] some Writers do almost nothing contrary to the custome, and some by vertue of that Priviledge, dare doe any thing. I am neither of that first order, nor of this last. The one is too fondly-ceremonious, the other too impudently audacious.
- 1958, C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1986, Chapter III, p. 23,
  Ancient and oriental cultures are in many ways more conventional, more ceremonious, and more courteous than our own.
Characterized by ceremony or rigid formality
- O, the sacrifice! / How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly / It was i' the offering!
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 17, [2]
  Captain Vere advanced to meet him, […] and interrupting the other's wonted ceremonious salutation, said, "Nay, tell me how it is with yonder man," […]

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