CEREMONY Copy link • CEREMONYritus (general term for a received mode of performing solemn offices): caerimonia: ritus sacri (religious ceremony or rites): officium (conventional form of courtesy). Without courtesy, ambagibus missis or positis (going straight to the point): sine mora (without delay): citra honorem verborum (without complimentary speeches). Master of the ceremonies, magister officiorum or aulae: magister admissionum (all belonging to the time of the emperors).