Ritual vs External - What's the difference?
ritual | external | Related terms |
Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
Ritual is a related term of external.
As a noun ritual
is ritual, rite.As an adjective external is
outside of something; on the exterior.ritual
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Alternative forms
* rituall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.
Derived terms
* rituallyDerived terms
* ritualisation, ritualization * ritualise, ritualize * ritualist * ritualistic * rituallyexternal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom