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biritual

biritual is the alternative form of bi-ritual.

Meaning of bi-ritual

Adjective

bi-ritual (not comparable)

  1. Able to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and administer the sacraments of two different sui iuris churches.
  2. Applying to the rituals of two different churches.
    • Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).1994, John M. Huels, The Catechumenate and the Law, page 41

Origin of biritual

From bi- + ritual.

Questions about biritual

What is biritual the alternative form of?
Biritual is the alternative form of bi-ritual.

Words near biritual in the dictionary

  1. Birimian
  2. birimose
  3. biringuccite
  4. birista
  5. biritch
  6. biritual
  7. biriyani
  8. biriyanis
  9. Birjand
  10. birk
  11. birkarl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biritual (page history and authors); bi-ritual (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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