All Souls' Day as a noun: - 1
All Souls' Day
noun
1 All Souls' Day
A day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory.
synonym: November 2.
Polish: Dzień Zaduszny, Zaduszki
Roget 138:
periodicity,
intermittence;
beat;
oscillation
etc.
314;
pulse,
pulsation;
rhythm;
alternation,
alternateness,
alternativeness,
alternity†.
bout,
round,
revolution,
rotation,
turn,
say.
anniversary,
jubilee,
centenary.
catamenia†,
courses,
menses,
menstrual flux.
[Regularity of return]
rota,
cycle,
period,
stated time,
routine;
days of the week;
Sunday,
Monday
&c.;
months of the year;
January
&c.;
feast,
fast
&c.;
Christmas,
Easter,
New Year's day
&c.;
Allhallows†,
Allhallowmas†,
All Saints' Day;
All Souls',
All Souls' Day;
Ash Wednesday,
bicentennial,
birthday,
bissextile†,
Candlemas†,
Dewali,
groundhog day [U.S.],
Halloween,
Hallowmas†,
Lady day,
leap year,
Midsummer day,
Muharram,
woodchuck day [U.S.],
St. Swithin's day,
natal day;
yearbook;
yuletide.
punctuality,
regularity,
steadiness.
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Roget 998:
rite;
ceremony,
ritual,
liturgy,
ceremonial;
ordinance,
observance,
function,
duty;
form,
formulary;
solemnity,
sacrament;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993;
service,
psalmody
etc.
(worship)
990.
ministration;
preaching,
preachment;
predication,
sermon,
homily,
lecture,
discourse,
pastoral.
[Christian ritual for induction into the faith]
baptism,
christening,
chrism;
circumcision;
baptismal regeneration;
font.
confirmation;
imposition of hands,
laying on of hands;
ordination
etc.
(churchdom)
995;
excommunication.
[Jewish rituals]
Bar Mitzvah,
Bas Mitzvah [Fr.],
Bris.
Eucharist,
Lord's supper,
communion;
the sacrament,
the holy sacrament;
celebration,
high celebration;
missa cantata [Lat.];
asperges†;
offertory;
introit;
consecration;
consubstantiation,
transubstantiation;
real presence;
elements;
mass;
high mass,
low mass,
dry mass.
matrimony
etc.
903;
burial
etc.
363;
visitation of the sick.
seven sacraments,
impanation†,
subpanation†,
extreme unction,
viaticum,
invocation of saints,
canonization,
transfiguration,
auricular confession;
maceration,
flagellation,
sackcloth and ashes;
penance
etc.
(atonement)
952;
telling of beads,
processional;
thurification†,
incense,
holy water,
aspersion.
relics,
rosary,
beads,
reliquary,
host,
cross,
rood,
crucifix,
pax [Lat.],
pyx,
agnus Dei [Lat.],
censer,
thurible,
patera†;
eileton†,
Holy Grail;
prayer machine,
prayer wheel;
Sangraal†,
urceus†.
ritualism,
ceremonialism;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
ritualist,
sabbatarian†.
holyday,
feast,
fast.
[Christian holy days]
Sabbath,
Pentecost;
Advent,
Christmas,
Epiphany;
Lent;
Passion week,
Holy week;
Easter,
Easter Sunday,
Whitsuntide;
agape,
Ascension Day,
Candlemas†,
Ash Wednesday,
Good Friday,
Holy Thursday;
Lammas,
Martinmas,
Michaelmas;
All SAint's DAy,
All Souls' Day.
[Moslem holy days]
Ramadan,
Ramazan;
Bairam
&c..
etc.
[Jewish holy days]
Passover;
Shabuoth;
Yom Kippur,
Day of Atonement;
Rosh Hashana,
New Year;
Hanukkah,
Chanukkah,
Feast of Lights;
Purim,
Feast of lots.
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