v. Obs. [f. CEREMONY + -ATE3; perh. after L. cæremōniāri, -ātus, to treat with ceremony, worship.] trans. To celebrate with a ceremony; to observe as a ceremony.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 2. To ceremoniate his dismission agreeable to his reception. Ibid., 20. Ceremoniated as it [Coronation] is, with such formalities, it representeth it self a serious vanity. Ibid. (1659), Alliance Div. Off., 299. The rites wherewith they are ceremoniated.
