coronation

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ceremonies
anti-ritualism
cavalcade
ceremonial
ceremonially
ceremony
guard of honour
hara-kiri
initiate
initiation
initiatory
installation
knight
master of ceremonies
pageant
requiem
ribbon cutting
rite of passage
ritual
ritualistic
troop

Examples of investiture

investiture
In this program, investiture is the central ritual for instilling that spirit within the body of the new leader.
Both events occur in contexts involving the transfer of power objects during the course of investiture.
It is one of those things that utterly refuse the investiture of language.
A vote for a certain prime minister basically means a vote for a particular cabinet and is therefore somewhat comparable to an investiture vote.
He represents not the continuing power of symbolic investiture but its recession into the dead past.
But a more significant reference to death and regeneration is the recumbent individual lying below the investiture scene.
Immediately after the government passed the investiture hurdle, new negotiations began between the government parties and three nongovernment parties.
Finally, we can imagine a constitution that always recognizes the incumbent cabinet first, but also requires an investiture vote.
It is important to note that continuation and investiture are logically independent features.
Transmission in the lord's court and the payment of a relief at the investiture of the new vassal was obligatory, as was sometimes the payment of a tax.
The section below will argue that such similarities can be seen in investiture rituals-that is, confirmation rituals by an overlord of lesser individuals not necessarily from the same community.
Thus, here again the ballgame is associated with the investiture of secondary lords, with mythic /supernatural journeys, and, as will be seen later, with nose piercing.
It is precisely m this kind of secular legitimization that the regional daimyo and others sought from the emperor, rather than any kind of religious investiture.
Mothersill invoked religious signifiers of investiture, reinventing them with heredity's purple prose.
Salisbury guided the investiture from theory and the collection of precedents to reality.
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