Rit"u*al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. ritualisme.] 1. A system founded upon a
ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or
observance of, a ritual.
2. Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the
Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement,
so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of
the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles,
etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never,
as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally
disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of
those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party
in the Church of England.
Rit"u*al*ist (?), n. [CF. F. ritualiste.] One skilled un, or attached
to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
Rit`u*al*is"tic (?), a. Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual;
adhering to ritualism.
Rit"u*al*ly, adv. By rites, or by a particular rite.
Riv"age (?), n. [F., fr. L. ripa bank, shore.] 1. A bank, shore, or
coast. [Archaic] Spenser.
From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical.
Tennyson.
2. (O.Eng.Law) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on
certain rivers.
Ri"val (?), n. [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two neigbors
having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a
brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. Rivulet, Rete.] 1. A person having a
common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.]
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid
them make haste.
Shak.
2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to
reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and
which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for
a crown.
"Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the
banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is
no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would
continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be
at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they
severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals'
. . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less
unfriendly competition with one another." Trench.
Syn. -- Competitor; emulator; antagonist.
Ri"val, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in
competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or
pretensions.
The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival
confederacies of statesmen.
Macaulay.
Ri"val, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rivaled (?) or Rivalled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rivaling or Rivalling.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to
gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.