J.P.B. had used this gown as a symbolic rite on 20 occasions while conferring doctorates on his students.

These initiations were not merely symbolic rites of passage, but involved transmission of and confirmation of spiritual experiences.

She will also continue to campaign against female genital mutilation, while urging communities to come up with more symbolic rites of passage for girls at puberty.

In that symbolic rite a child became a man.

Stone (karb) beating is symbolic rite which is popular in several parts of the country accompanied by special melodies.

Although trusted with one of the last symbolic rites of the Hawaiian religion, he later became a supporter of Christian missionaries.

Sanj gradually was used in "Stone beating" symbolic rite, which still is popular in several parts of the Iran accompanied by special melodies.

Police pageantry was a symbolic rite.

It may be appealing as a symbolic rite of passage: one goes in as a rookie and emerges as something of a brother or teammate.

Isambard turned about beneath the trembling hands with a stony quietness, surrendering to these symbolic rites a body from which the mind seemed to have withdrawn.