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/rɪlˈɪdʒəs/ /rilˈɪdʒəs/ Listen

adjective

Religious adj.

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 religious rites My presence."

Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc. "Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God."

Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict. "Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper."

Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. "One of them is religious."

Synonyms: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact.

noun

Religious n. 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.

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Etymology of 'Religious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... interrogations proved to be the parish clerk, and whether his duties were also suspended—whether the parishioners did not die, and did not require to be buried—during the period in which the parish was deprived of a parson, was a question of more consequence to Ralph than the cause of the religious bankruptcy which the ...

— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

... to Lady Monteagle who is the daughter of "Muriel" Lady Tresham) are favoured dependants of the Tresham family, being the children of an old and much valued Catholic servant. Both George and William are confidentially employed by Tresham as amanuenses, in transcribing religious, or treasonable, treatises of ...

— The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 • William Parker

... the air. Your feelin' clean and religious-like is nacheral up here. Don't worry if it feels queer to you at first—you'll get used to it. Why, I quit cussin', myself, when everything seems so dum' quiet. Sounds like the whole works had stopped to listen to ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... had already done upon blind impulse; and thus upon a double argument I was incapable of turning away from the prayer of the afflicted, whatever had been the sacrifice to myself. Hardly, perhaps, could it have been said in a sufficient sense at that time that I was a religious man: yet undoubtedly I had all the foundations within me upon which religion might hereafter have grown. My heart overflowed with thankfulness to Providence: I had a natural tone of unaffected piety; and thus far at least I might have been called a religious man, ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... doubt in the existence of witches was interpreted as equivalent to a justification of their infernal practices, a belief of such legends had been impressed upon the Dominie as an article indivisible from his religious faith, and perhaps it would have been equally difficult to have induced him to doubt the one as the other. With these feelings, and in a thick misty day, which was already drawing to its close, Dominie Sampson did not pass the Kaim of ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

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