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Excerpt from The Ceremonial of the English Church
Books called ceremonials prescribe the mode of using the rites or conducting the service. Strictly speaking, then, the term ritual' signifies the words of a rite, and the term ceremonial' the actions in which it con sists or by which it is accompanied. Thus, it is possible to be a learned ritualist, ' and.
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