ritual

Preposition: of

remembrance: This association is especially important in the ritual of remembrance, helping to console the bereaved.

Converse of object

• enact: They may enact the rituals slightly differently, or embellish them a touch, so essentially they are copying them with slight variations.
• perform: In order to be left in peace, every citizen was required to perform certain political rituals.

Adjective modifier

• masonic: The first known Masonic rituals in the world are Scottish in origin.
• funerary: First the dead have to wait in another land until the funerary ritual is over and to be punished if they are sinners.
• elaborate: Those with panache, myself included, maintained the semblance of elaborate ritual.
• mortuary: EVENT Records a clearly defined ' happening ' in the photography e.g. ceremony, feast, exhibition, mortuary ritual.
• bizarre: In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace.
• shamanic: Psychoanalysis and shamanism But might psychoanalysis be akin to faith healing or shamanic ritual?

Modifies a noun

• slaughter: The ritual slaughter of the Australian sheep in Kuwaiti slaughterhouses.
• humiliation: I am the Guardian's specialist in ritual humiliation.
• purification: Their ceremonies were secret and involved fasting and ritual purification.
• sacrifice: The livestock being killed are " a ritual sacrifice to the gods of global markets.

Noun used with modifier

• mating: Disillusioned that the local mating ritual is designed to punish everyone involved he is now hiding in his flatmate's cupboard.
• courtship: Apart from courtship rituals the impact on us humans at this time is not too great.
• pagan: An imagined funeral rite or pagan ritual with Alex listening in.
• initiation: However, even then not all of them survived the initiation rituals that followed.
• purification: Often she accomplishes this by weaving the themes of a particular myth into the fabric of a purification ritual.
• bedtime: Although parents usually follow a bedtime ritual with their young children, it, too, is often cut short or rushed.