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Rhopalium
- - One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Rhotacism
- - An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.
Ritualism
- noun - exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
- the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
Sabbatism
- - Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
Sabianism
- - The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.
Sacrarium
- - A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
Sargassum
- noun - brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea
Sephardim
- - Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.
Septarium
- - A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.