Ritratto () A picture.

Ritual () Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

Ritual () A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

Ritual () Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.

Ritual () A book containing the rites to be observed.

Ritualism () A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.

Ritualism () Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.

Ritualist () One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

Ritualistic () Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.

Ritually () By rites, or by a particular rite.

Rivage () A bank, shore, or coast.

Rivage () A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Rival () A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

Rival () One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

Rival () Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

Rivaled () of Rival

Rivalled () of Rival

Rivaling () of Rival

Rivalling () of Rival

Rival () To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.

Rival () To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.

Rival () To be in rivalry.

Rivaless () A female rival.

Rivality () Rivalry; competition.

Rivality () Equality, as of right or rank.

Rivalries () of Rivalry

Rivalry () The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.

Rivalship () Rivalry.

Rived () of Rive

Riven () of Rive

Riving () of Rive

Rive () To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

Rive () To be split or rent asunder.

Rive () A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Riveled () of Rivel

Riveling () of Rivel

Rivel () To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.

Rivel () A wrinkle; a rimple.

Riven () p. p. & a. from Rive.

River () One who rives or splits.

River () A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

River () Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

River () To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Rivered () Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.

Riveret () A rivulet.

Riverhood () The quality or state of being a river.

Riverling () A rivulet.

Riverside () The side or bank of a river.

Rivery () Having rivers; as, a rivery country.

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