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Webster 1913 Edition
Religious
Re-li′gious
(r?-l?j′?s)
, Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion;
as, a
religious
society; a religious
sect; a religious
place; religious
subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.Our law forbids at their
My presence.
religious
ritesMy presence.
Milton.
2.
Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly;
as, a
religious
man, life, behavior, etc.Men whose lives
Religious
titled them the sons of God. Mlton
3.
Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
Thus, Indianlike,
The sun, that looks upon his worshiper.
Religious
in my error, I adoreThe sun, that looks upon his worshiper.
Shakespeare
4.
Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
One of them is
religious
. Chaucer.
Syn. – Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact.
Re-li′gious
,Noun.
A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Religious
RELIG'IOUS
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining or relating to religion; as a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects.2.
Pious; godly; loving and reverencing the Supreme Being and obeying his precepts; as a religious man.3.
Devoted to the practice of religion; as a religious life.4.
Teaching religion; containing religious subject or the doctrines and precepts of religion, or the discussion of topics of religion; as a religious book.5.
Exact; strict; such as religion requires; as a religious observance of vows or promises.6.
Engaged by vows to a monastic life; as a religious order or fraternity.7.
Appropriated to the performance of sacred or religious duties; as a religious house.RELIG'IOUS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
religious
religious
English
Adjective
religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)
- Concerning religion.
- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- Committed to the practice of religion.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Antonyms
- (concerning religion): irreligious, profane, secular, atheistic
- (committed to religion): areligious, irreligious
- (highly dedicated): casual
Hyponyms
- Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, Raëlian, Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, Confucianist
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Translations
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Noun
religious (plural religious or religiouses)
- A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354:
- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 354: