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Ritual vs Suffumigation - What's the difference?

ritual | suffumigation |

As nouns the difference between ritual and suffumigation

is that ritual is ritual, rite while suffumigation is (archaic) the burning of substances to produce fumes as part of some magical rituals.

ritual

English

Alternative forms

* rituall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
    • They performed the ritual lighting of the candles.

    Derived terms

    * ritually

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • rite; a repeated set of actions
    • They carried out the ritual carefully.

    Derived terms

    * ritualisation, ritualization * ritualise, ritualize * ritualist * ritualistic * ritually

    suffumigation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The burning of substances to produce fumes as part of some magical rituals.
  • * 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.208:
    • Now I will make dis avail me at de change of every quarter-moon dat I shall find by the same proportions of expenses I lay out in de suffumigations , as nine, to de product of nine multiplied unto itself.