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postritual

postritual adjective: after a ritual.

Adjective

postritual (not comparable)

  1. After a ritual.
    • The cardiac intervals were averaged for the baseline, ritual, and postritual periods and were then converted into heart rate (HR) for the ease of reading.2015 July 5, Karin Meissner, Anne Koch, “Sympathetic Arousal during a Touch-Based Healing Ritual Predicts Increased Well-Being”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM...

Origin of postritual

From post- + ritual.

Questions about postritual

What does postritual mean?
Postritual means after a ritual.
What part of speech is postritual?
Postritual is an adjective.

Words near postritual in the dictionary

  1. postrictal
  2. postrider
  3. postriders
  4. postriot
  5. postripening
  6. postritual
  7. postroad
  8. postroads
  9. postrock
  10. postroll
  11. postrolls

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