ceremonious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), to ceremonial laws in the Bible.

   “[L]et vs take a ceremonious leaue, / And louing farevvell of our ſeuerall friends.”

2. sıfat Involving much ceremony; ostentatious, showy.

   “O, the Sacrifice, / Hovv ceremonious, ſolemne, and vn-earthly / It vvas i'th' Offring?”

3. sıfat Of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious.

   “[S]ome VVriters do almoſt nothing contrary to yͤ cuſtome, and ſome by vertue of that Priuiledge, dare doe any thing. I am neither of that firſt order, nor of this laſt. The one is too fondly-ceremonious, the other too impudently audacious. I vvalke in the midſt (ſo vvell as I can) betvveene both.”

4. sıfat Synonym of ceremonial (“of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony or rite”); formal, ritual.

   “They [gentiles] may alſo theſiyer [the easier] bee allured to the Chriſtian fayth, for that it is more agreable to the lawe of nature then eyther the cerimonious lawe of Moiſes, or portentous fables of Mahometes Alcharon.”