The conferring of new names was not to add fuel to human vanity, but Sacramentally to heighten spiritual vitality.
"The Reconciliation of Races and Religions"
Thomas Kelly Cheyne
I found myself, indeed, saying to my son, "I am so glad you have heard that as I used to hear it," quite imagining for the moment that it was a piece of family lore of high import which was being Sacramentally passed on by the old retainer.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Amongst some of the tribes of the Malay Archipelago also the Gaji-Guru or medicine-man "can see from the yolk of an egg, broken whilst Sacramentally counting from one to seven, from what illness a man is suffering and what has caused it."
"The Khasis"
P. R. T. Gurdon