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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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"Religious" Quotes from Famous Books

... connected with the religious experiences of my childhood; or, perhaps I should say, with the religious observances of my childhood. Our minister's whiskers always interested me more than his discourses. As I nibble a peppermint from the bag before ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

... New Caledonia—do not eat each other indiscriminately. For example, they dispose of their dead with tender care, though they despatch with their clubs even their best friends when dying; but this is with them a religious duty. They only eat their enemies when they have killed them in battle. This also, in their code of morals, appears to be a duty. Toussenel, in his Zooelogie Passionelle, has a kind word even for these ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

... upon his influence as a composer. There were, I fear, two sides to Liszt's artistic character as well as his moral. I believe he had in him a touch of charlatanism as well as a magnificent amount of artistic sincerity—just as he blended a laxity of moral ideas with a profound religious mysticism. It would have been strange indeed, growing up as he did in the whited sepulchre of Parisian salon life, if he had not accustomed himself to sacrifice a little of the soul of art for the sake of vainglory, and a little of its poetry and feeling to make display of ...

— How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. - Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... his powerful jaw with a handful of dead leaves, and looked coldly around at the little circle of men who differed with one another so profoundly in their religious beliefs. ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... although convinced in her own mind that Vincent, and Vincent alone, was the man to carry out the enterprise, obediently suggested it to one religious Order after another. In every case some obstacle intervened, until the Countess was more than ever persuaded that her first instinct had been right. Knowing Vincent's loyalty to Holy Church and his obedience ...

— Life of St. Vincent de Paul • F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes

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