Now it's more of a holy rite, practiced beyond the traditional confines of the campaign trail.
The rite practiced there, however, is the result of the attempted restoration of the Mozarabic rite by Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros about 1500 and differs significantly from that preserved in the great majority of early manuscripts.
Foot washing, also called washing of feet, a religious rite practiced by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week (preceding Easter) and by members of some other Christian churches in their worship services.
The wearing of new clothes that have not yet been washed is also a purification rite, practiced, for example, in the spring of the year (October November) in Brahmanic India, where it is associated with the festival of lights, Diwali.
A front-page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.
To find out, Nock is developing computer tasks that he hopes could help get people, through rote practice, to identify more with being alive than dead.
In 1989, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics proposed a curriculum that not only played down rote practice but also left an impression that basic skills could be ignored.
It's relied upon for rote practice, assessment, student information management, and busy-work.
They debated whether Chinese ritual practices of honoring family ancestors and other formal Confucian and Chinese imperial rites qualified as religious rites and thus incompatible with Catholic belief.
The rites and practices of preliterate people to ward off or to expel evil spirits are also a form of exorcism, though they are sometimes considered witchcraft.
