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Bring her up the high altar, that she may

The sacred ceremonies there partake.

Spenser.

[The heralds] with awful ceremony

And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim

A solemn council.

Milton.

2. Behavior regulated by strict
etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms
of civility prescribed by custom or authority.

Ceremony was but devised at first

To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . .

But where there is true friendship there needs none.

Shak.

Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly
things; but yet a man of the world should know them.

Chesterfield.

3. A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a
crown, scepter, garland, etc. [Obs.]

Disrobe the images,

If you find them decked with ceremonies.

. . . Let no images

Be hung with Cæsar's trophies.

Shak.

4. A sign or prodigy; a portent.
[Obs.]

Cæsar, I never stood on
ceremonies,

Yet, now they fright me.


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