Preposition: of

• installation: His high position was indicated by special ceremonials of installation, dress and the exercise of political as well as of spiritual functions.

Adjective modifier

• religious: It was a religious act specifically undertaken to achieve the ritual purity required for participation in religious ceremonials.

• great: Here the ancestral shrines were located and the great state ceremonials and rituals took place.

• other: These feasts, like other ceremonials and rituals, help to overcome the tedium of everyday life.

Modifies a noun

• robe: The ceremonial robes are of bright red silk, with the badge on the left breast.

• mace: The city's ceremonial mace, now on display in the Guildhall Museum, dates from that year.

• dagger: It is a blunt, ceremonial dagger worn with Highland Dress.

• procession: DI Michael joined a ceremonial procession through the grand squares of Sir Christopher Wren's baroque masterpiece on the banks of the Thames.

• sword: Bronze figure of a Benin style soldier with ceremonial shaped sword held up in right hand, left hand over belly.

• occasion: The Piper of the Alamo I T WAS a solemn, ceremonial occasion.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: In this situation the role of the Queen herself is of course purely ceremonial.

• largely: The status of ' prince bishop ' was formally removed in 1835, having long been largely ceremonial.

• merely: As far as the Queen herself is concerned this is far from a merely ceremonial occasion.

• mostly: Unfortunately, in Jack's opinion, the meeting had consisted of mostly ceremonial crap.

• mainly: The British Sovereign today plays a mainly ceremonial role in the running of the country.

• primarily: One possible layout is shown in the artist's reconstruction of the fort, showing the triangle as primarily ceremonial.

Noun used with modifier

• graduation: The minutes of the special meetings and graduation ceremonials on 5 December 2001 were taken as read and approved.

• state: Here the ancestral shrines were located and the great state ceremonials and rituals took place.