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scotch rite
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scotch rite,
The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite ; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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