abbess, prioress, canoness[obs3]; religieuse[Fr], nun, novice,
postulant.
     [Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite;
Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe; scribe.
     [Mohammedan &c.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum[obs3], imam,
sheik; sufi; kahin[obs3], kassis[obs3]; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir[obs3]; brahmin[obs3], guru, kaziaskier[obs3], poonghie[obs3], sanyasi[obs3]; druid, bonze[obs3], santon[obs3], abdal[obs3], Lama, talapoin[obs3], caloyer[obs3]. 
     V. take orders &c. 995. 
     Adj. the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend; ordained, in
orders, called to the ministry.

     #997.  Laity. —­ N. laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly,
brethren, people; society [U.S.].
     temporality, secularization.
     layman, civilian; parishioner, catechumen; secularist. 
     V. secularize. 
     Adj. secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

     #998.  Rite.—­ N. rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial;
ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation &c. (spell) 993; service, psalmody &c. (worship) 990.
     ministration; preaching, preachment; predication, sermon, homily,
lecture, discourse, pastoral.
     [Christian ritual for induction into the faith] baptism, christening,
chrism; circumcision; baptismal regeneration; font.
     confirmation; imposition of hands, laying on of hands; ordination &c.
(churchdom) 995; excommunication.
     [Jewish rituals] Bar Mitzvah, Bas Mitzvah[Fr], Bris. 
     Eucharist, Lord’s supper, communion; the sacrament, the holy
sacrament; celebration, high celebration; missa cantata[Lat]; asperges[obs3]; offertory; introit; consecration; consubstantiation, transubstantiation; real presence; elements; mass; high mass, low mass, dry mass.
     matrimony &c. 903; burial &c. 363; visitation of the sick.
     seven sacraments, impanation[obs3], subpanation[obs3], extreme
unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance &c. (atonement) 952; telling of beads, processional; thurification[obs3], incense, holy water, aspersion.
     relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix,
pax[Lat], pyx, agnus Dei[Lat], censer, thurible, patera[obs3]; eileton[obs3], Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal[obs3], urceus[obs3].
     ritualism, ceremonialism; sabbatism[obs3], sabbatarianism[obs3];
ritualist, sabbatarian[obs3].
     holyday, feast, fast.
     [Christian holy days] Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany;
Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas[obs3], Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint’s DAy, All Souls’ Day
     [Moslem holy days] Ramadan,