Definition of "rites" []

• Plural form of rite. (noun)

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• "We can now offer both Latin rites in both forms at our center."
• "Returning to the 1962 rites is costing a good deal of money, particularly in buying expensive liturgical books."
• "The job of the popularizer of science, trying to get across some idea of quantum mechanics to a general audience that has not gone through these initiation rites, is daunting."