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Webster 1913 Edition


Religious

Re-li′gious

(r?-l?j′?s)
,
Adj.
[OF.
religius
,
religious
, F.
religieux
, from L.
religiosus
. See
Religion
.]
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
religious
rites
My 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,
Religious
in my error, I adore
The 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.
[L. religiosus.]
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.
A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to a life of piety and devotion; a monk or friar; a nun.

Definition 2024


religious

religious

English

Adjective

religious (comparative more religious, superlative most religious)

  1. Concerning religion.
    It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
  2. Committed to the practice of religion.
    I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
  3. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
    I'm a religious fan of college basketball.

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Noun

religious (plural religious or religiouses)

  1. 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.

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