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1ceremony — noun 1 formal public/religious event ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, short ▪ quiet, simple ▪ elaborate, glittering (BrE), lavish …
2ceremony — 01. Their wedding [ceremony] was held in a beautiful park downtown. 02. The native chiefs wore their beautiful [ceremonial] gowns at the signing of the historic treaty. 03. His funeral was a private [ceremony] attended only by family and a few… …
3Line-crossing ceremony — U.S. Sailors and Marines participate in a line crossing ceremony aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) as the ship passes the Equator May 16, 2008. It has been a long naval tradition to initiate pollywogs, sailors who have never crossed the Equator,… …
4Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church — The Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church is a wedding or marriage rededication ceremony sponsored by the Unification Church. It is given to married (or engaged) couples. Through it, members of the Unification Church believe, the couple is… …
5Blessing Ceremony of the Unification Church — The Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church is considered by the Unification Church to be the most important and central ceremony in a person’s spiritual life. The Blessing is given to married (or engaged) couples. Through it, members of the… …
6Academic degree — An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed …
7Honorary degree — For other degrees, see Academic degree. Not to be confused with an honours degree. An honorary degree[1] or a degree honoris causa (Latin: for the sake of the honour ) is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree awarding… …
8Taejang Ceremony — Taejang was a Korean ceremony where parents buried their baby s placenta or Tae in a special place on a special day. Tae means umbilical cord. Jang is a ceremony in which something is buried. The origins of Taejan Korean ancestors considered Tae… …
9third degree — intense interrogation by police, 1900, probably a reference to Third Degree of master mason in Freemasonry (1772), the conferring of which included an interrogation ceremony. Third degree as a measure of severity of burns (most severe) is… …
10Graduation — For other uses, see Graduation (disambiguation). Academic procession during the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony. Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated,… …
