Religious Definition
religious
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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman relegius, religius et al., Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō (“religion”).
Pronunciation
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.
Related terms
- irreligious
- religion
- religious education
- religious leader
- religious order
- religious studies
- religiously
- religiousness
- sacrilegious
Noun
religious (plural religious)
- A member of a religious order.
- 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:
Translations
member of religious order
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Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: father's · killed · marriage · #873: religious · allow · spent · soldiers
External links
- religious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- religious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature.
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