Home Help Word English Spanish French Russian German Italian Chinese (Trad.) Chinese (Simpl.) Portuguese Arabic Turkish Greek » Definition of " Ritualism " in English English Dictionary Results Ritualism A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. n. Ritualism 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. n. Spiritualism The quality or state of being spiritual. n. Spiritualism The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte. n. Spiritualism A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. n.