But it's just a new name for an ancient rite.

He was not given to the ancient rites, as a rule.

He was a great authority on our ancient religious rites.

All these things had been carried out according to the ancient rites.

Here, perhaps, within living memory, the ancient rites were enacted and may yet be again.

It's a very ancient rite, practiced in almost all European countries.

The communion includes laying on of hands, an ancient rite for the sick.

He slipped into an old routine of leading the believers in the ancient rites.

At last this attempt to evoke ancient rites seemed only a curiosity.

She intoned this as if it were a religious act, part of an ancient rite that needed completion.