(ceremoniale), a ritual, or book containing the prescribed rules relating to the rites and ceremonies of the Romish Church.

Ceremonial is particularly applied to the forms and rites of the Jewish religion; as the ceremonial law, in contradistinction to the moral and the judicial law.

CEREMONY, external form of religion; outward forms of state; the forms prescribed for the purpose of civility or magnificence, as in the levees of sovereigns, the reception of ambassadors, &c.