ceremony

Then there was the ceremony of the Corn to learn, the prayers and the dances.

I was certainly present at the ceremony, but I have utterly forgotten her name.

The ceremony is gone through for the sake of pleasing a deity.

Peter knew he was experiencing a ceremony of some kind, the significance of which he must learn.

In this ceremony it was known that John Castell had been doomed to play a leading part.

I know that you have double the sum we want in ready money—so I make no ceremony.

I hope I ain't so much of a stranger you've got to stand on ceremony.

There was much pomp and ceremony attached to these knightly exercises.

But this is a question of taste and ceremony, and so is the Windsor Uniform.

The muster was for the ceremony of passing the Government Inspector and the Doctor.