ritualistic

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Playwright Chase is concerned with teen-age boys�their reveries, ritualisms, lingo, dates and dames.

From Time Magazine Archive

As you might say, he was almost high church in his adherence to the ritualisms.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

They prided themselves upon their nominal, external, hereditary connection with a system of revelation, they trusted in mere ritualisms, they had ossified religion into theology, and degraded morality into casuistry.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

From the lecture-room of Göttingen, with its destructive and reconstructive criticism, Browning is even farther removed than he is from the ritualisms of the Roman basilica.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

Its scrupulous ritualisms have dried up its philanthropy.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry