Definition of "ritualize" []

• To make a ritual of. (verb-transitive)
• To force a ritual on. (verb-transitive)
• To engage in ritualism. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you don't ritualize a specific bedtime, you'll end up finding ways to stay up later, just the way you do now."
• "With each blessing uttered, we extend the boundaries of the sacred and ritualize our love of life."
• "This particular type of palm frond, or lulav, is one of four species of flora that Jews ritualize in their observance of the harvest festival."