English-Portuguese translations for ritual

• ritual
  As eleições de Dezembro foram, na realidade, um ritual de recondução no cargo. The December elections were actually a ritual of re-appointment.
  O processo orçamental da UE está a transformar-se num ritual fixo todos os anos. The EU's Budget procedure is becoming a set ritual every year.
  Um exemplo claro é a questão do abate ritual. A conspicuous example is the question of ritual slaughter.
• rito
  Os ritos religiosos designam principalmente o abate cruel praticado nomeadamente na festa muçulmana do l'Aïd el-Kebir, por ocasião da qual centenas de milhares de carneiros são degolados. 'Religious rites' mainly refer to the ritual slaughter practised in particular during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha, when hundreds of thousands of sheep have their throats cut.
• ritualístico

Definition of ritual

• Related to a rite or repeated set of actions
• rite; a repeated set of actions

Examples

• They performed the ritual lighting of the candles
• They carried out the ritual carefully

Related words

• spiritual
• Spiritual
• spirituality
• spiritually
• spiritualism
• ritualistic
• spiritualist
• ritually
• ritualistically