n. A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of\n religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.\nn. Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those\n in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford\n movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church\n services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic\n vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of\n Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt\n authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also,\n the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal\n Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.