- Ardent enthusiast - Ardent fan - Fan - One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to
religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and
ceremonies; a bigot.
- Formal - Official (dress) - Real income (anag) - Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual;
according to the forms of established rites. - Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense
ceremonious is now preferred.] - A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or
established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the
courts of princes; outward form. - The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic
church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on
solemn occasions.
- A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower
sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other
ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies. - A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. - The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.
- Enigma - Inexplicable event - Something that can't be explained - Something unexplained - Unsolved crime - A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something
kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder;
something which has not been or can not be explained; hence,
specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension. - A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were
admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory
ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.