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Ritualise
- verb - make or evolve into a ritual; "The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures"
Ritualism
- noun - exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
- the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
Ritualist
- noun - a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies
- an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms
Ritualize
- verb - make or evolve into a ritual; "The growing up of children has become ritualized in many cultures"
Rivalling
- verb - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
Roadblock
- noun - a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding"
Robotlike
- adjective - resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency"
Roccellas
- noun - a source of the dye archil and of litmus
Roccellic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4.