Usually means: Formalize actions into repeated ceremonies.
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  1. ritualize: Collins English Dictionary
  2. ritualize: Vocabulary.com
  3. ritualize: Wordnik
  4. ritualize: Wiktionary
  5. ritualize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. ritualize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. ritualize: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. ritualize: Dictionary.com
  9. ritualize: Rhymezone
  10. ritualize: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ritualize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. ritualize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. ritualize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  14. ritualize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  15. ritualize: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ritualize: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ritualize)

▸ verb:  (US, transitive) To make into a ritual.

Similar:
ritualise, traditionalize, routinize, sacredize, ceremonialize, sacramentalize, traditionalise, religify, rhythmicize, religion, more...

Opposite:
spontaneous, casual, informal, unceremonious

Types:
formalize, ceremonialize, canonize, more...

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Similar:
ritualise, traditionalize, routinize, sacredize, ceremonialize, sacramentalize, traditionalise, religify, rhythmicize, religion, more...

Opposite:
spontaneous, casual, informal, unceremonious

Types:
formalize, ceremonialize, canonize, more...



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