"ceremonious" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: To the Verry Worthy Gentleman Maister Francis Mustian of Peckam”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, page 177:",
          "text": "[S]ome Writers do almoſt nothing contrary to yͤ cuſtome, and ſome by vertue of that Priviledge, dare doe any thing. I am neither of that firſt order, nor of this laſt. The one is too fondly-ceremonious, the other too impudently audacious.",
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          "text": "O, the sacrifice! / How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly / It was i' the offering!",
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          "text": "Captain Vere advanced to meet him, […] and interrupting the other's wonted ceremonious salutation, said, \"Nay, tell me how it is with yonder man,\" […]",
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