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ceremony
English
Alternative forms
- cæremony, cærimony (both archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English cerymonye, from Latin caerimonia or caeremonia, later often cerimonia (“sacredness, reverence, a sacred rite”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s???m?ni/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s???mo?ni/
- Hyphenation: cer?e?mo?ny
Noun
ceremony (plural ceremonies)
- A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Six, Canto 8, pp. 463-464,[1]
- To whom the Priest with naked armes full net
- Approching nigh, and murdrous knife well whet,
- Gan mutter close a certaine secret charme,
- With other diuelish ceremonies met:
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Numbers 9:3,[2]
- In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep [the passover] in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
- 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, London: Macmillan, Volume I, Chapter 1, p. 1,[3]
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Six, Canto 8, pp. 463-464,[1]
- An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
- a graduation ceremony, an opening ceremony
- (uncountable) A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4,[4]
- […] to feed were best at home;
- From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
- Meeting were bare without it.
- 1928, W. Somerset Maugham, “Miss King” in Ashenden, New York: Avon, 1943, p. 37,[5]
- Monsieur Bridet, notwithstanding his costume and his evident harrassment, found in himself the presence of mind to remain the attentive manager, and with ceremony effected the proper introduction.
- 1959, C. S. Forester, Hunting the Bismarck, London: Michael Joseph,[6]
- They went into the bars and interrupted the drinking, hustling the men out without ceremony.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4,[4]
- (uncountable) Show of magnificence, display, ostentation.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 752-756,[7]
- Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command
- Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony
- And trumpet’s sound, throughout the host proclaim
- A solemn council forthwith to be held
- At Pandemonium […]
- 1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, Volume II, Chapter 46, p. 254,[8]
- Immediately after her arrival, the queen rode forth to survey the camp and its environs: wherever she went, she was attended by a splendid retinue; and all the commanders vied with each other, in the pomp and ceremony with which they received her.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 752-756,[7]
- (obsolete) An accessory or object associated with a ritual.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 1,[9]
- […] his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man […]
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2,[10]
- […] Well, believe this,
- No ceremony that to great ones ’longs,
- Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
- The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
- Become them with one half so good a grace
- As mercy does.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 1,[9]
- (obsolete) An omen or portent.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,[11]
- For he is superstitious grown of late,
- Quite from the main opinion he held once
- Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2,[12]
- Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
- Yet now they fright me.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,[11]
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- ceremony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- ceremony at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ceremony”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ceremony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Middle English
Noun
ceremony
- Alternative form of cerymonye
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naming
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ne?m??/
- Rhymes: -e?m??
Noun
naming (plural namings)
- The process of giving names to things.
- A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
Translations
Verb
naming
- present participle of name
Adjective
naming (not comparable)
- Giving a name to a person or thing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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- Mangin, Minang
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