ceremonialist

[ser-uh-moh-nee-uhl-ist]

noun

1. a person who values or practices ceremony; someone who favors form or ritual.

adjective

1. inclining toward ceremony; promoting or characterized by formalism and ritual.

Example Sentences

Antonia Greene, a psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner and ceremonialist on Vashon Island, hosts a free community fire ceremony.

From Seattle Times

This letter itself dwells upon two applications of its principles to two classes of error which, in somewhat changed forms, exist now as then—the error of the ceremonialist, to whom religion was mainly a matter of ritual, and the error of the speculative thinker, to whom the universe was filled with forces which left no room for the working of a personal Will.

From Project Gutenberg

Cardinals Carlstadt Carmelites Carthusian Castor and Pollux Casus reservati Catechisms Cathedrals Celibacy Ceremonialist Ceremonies Certainty of salvation Chancery, rules in Chapters Character indelebilis Charity Charles the Great Charles V. Chartreuse Chastity Christ     spiritual body of     as king and priest     sacrifice of the altar     sacrament     faith in Christian nobility, duty of Christian, the name     what makes     marks of a Christianity Church     authority of     cannot institute sacraments     community of Christians     our mother     and state Church laws Cicero Circumcision Circumstances Clement V. Clement VI.

From Project Gutenberg

The ceremonialist sometimes hypnotizes himself by his repetitions, and in that condition becomes to some extent clairvoyant; more often he simply reduces himself to a passive condition in which some other entity can obsess him and speak through him.

From Project Gutenberg

I want merely, then, esthetic recognition in full of the contribution of the redman as artist, as one of the finest artists of time; the poetic redman ceremonialist, celebrant of the universe as he sees it, and master among masters of the art of symbolic gesture.

From Project Gutenberg