Meaning of संस्कार in English

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
Livery of seizin.
That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
To bind by an oath.
Consecrator.
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The act of imparting, or the thing imparted.
A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.
Office or condition of a sachem.
A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
The adytum of a temple.
In a Christian church, the sanctuary.
The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.