It was originally a ritualized form of enforcing community standards, appropriate behavior and traditional rights.

This eventually leads to Punch hitting other characters with his slapstick, but it is a very ritualized form of violence.

The ritualized forms and drum names constituted a type of oral literature.

All you have to understand about golf is that it is a highly ritualized form of play.

A more ritualized form called the wai khru is found in neighboring Thailand.

"ZEGG-Forum" is a ritualized form of transparent communication between individuals and groups.

Its playful and ritualized form makes it easier to share thoughts and feelings that usually are hidden, thus strengthening social contacts.

Hunting has become its own kind of endangered species, a long-ago ritualized form of recreation (not to mention a hefty source of state revenue).

Middlebury College abolished fraternities in the early 1990s, but the organization continued on campus in the less ritualized form of a social house.

In some societies the elderly are revered as holders of wisdom, who often pass on, in ritualized form, information that the community needs to know.