ceremony (n.)
- amenities
- buckram
- celebration
- ceremonial
- ceremonies
- ceremoniousness
- commemoration
- commencement
- convention
- convocation
- decorum
- dignity
- duty
- etiquette
- exercise
- exercises
- fanfare
- festivity
- form
- formal
- formalities
- formality
- formalization
- formula
- formulary
- function
- graduation
- gravity
- holiday
- inaugural
- inauguration
- initiation
- institution
- jubilee
- liturgy
- memorialization
- memory
- mummery
- mystery
- observance
- office
- ordinance
- ovation
- performance
- pomp
- pomposity
- practice
- primness
- protocol
- rejoicing
- remembrance
- revel
- rigidness
- rite
- rites
- ritual
- rituality
- sacrament
- salute
- salvo
- service
- solemnity
- solemnization
- stiffness
- stylization
- testimonial
- toast
- tribute
- triumph
- weight
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.
Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
