religious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəs
Forms: form: more religious
form: most religious
Etymology: From Middle English religiouse, religious, religius, religeous, from Anglo-Norman religieus, religius, from Old French religious, religieux, and their source, Latin religiōsus (“religious, superstitious, conscientious”), from religiō. Doublet of religieux.
Senses: examples: text: It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
text: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
ref: 1787 September 17, Constitutional Convention, Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, page 4:
text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2014, pages 219–257:
text: All U.S. states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from getting certain vaccines. Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons.
ref: 2025 February 14, Collin Binkley, “Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines”, in Associated Press:
glosses: Concerning religion.
examples: text: I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
glosses: Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
examples: text: I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
glosses: Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
examples: text: religious priest, religious sister, religious brother
text: The religious vows are either simple or solemn. Vows are solemn according to the more common opinion, not, for instance, because of any solemnity attending the making of them, but because of the will of the Church.
ref: 1878, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, page 236:
text: The religious priest lives his priesthood vocation within the religious congregation to which he belongs. He may serve within a parish or another institution, such as a school or a hospital. Unlike the diocesan priest, the religious priest develops his identity from the charism of the religious order and finds his community with the members of that order.
ref: 2001, John P. Mack, Priests: An Inside Look, Saint Mary's Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: From the 1450s onward it was possible for a religious to have included in his dispensation a clause that allowed him, once beneficed, to wear the garb of a secular priest provided he wore his religious habit underneath.
ref: 2002 May 16, F. Donald Logan, Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Divergence in religious rule and observance for women within the Franciscan order undoubtedly complicated the assimilation of the Irish Poor Clare sisters within Spanish convents.
ref: 2022 October 18, Bronagh Ann McShane, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to a religious order or religious congregation.
Hyponyms: Baháʼí
Buddhist
Confucianist
Druidic
Eckist
Hindu
humanist
Jain
Jewish
LaVeyan Satanist
Muslim
New Ager
pagan
Raëlian
Rastafarian
reconstructionist
Scientologist
Sikh
spiritist
Taoist
Thelemite
Unitarian Universalist
Wiccan
Zoroastrian
Derived terms: alethoreligious
aletho-religious
antireligious
anti-religious
areligious
criminal religious movement
ethicoreligious
ethico-religious
ethno-religious
ethnoreligious
hyperreligious
hyporeligious
interreligious
inter-religious
intrareligious
irreligious
magicoreligious
medicoreligious
military-religious
misreligious
monoreligious
multireligious
neoreligious
new religious movement
nonreligious
non-religious
overreligious
paleoreligious
parareligious
politicoreligious
postreligious
prereligious
proreligious
pro-religious
protoreligious
pseudoreligious
pseudo-religious
quasireligious
quasi-religious
religious education
religious freedom
religious humanism
religious humanist
religious institute
religious leader
religiously
religious naturalism
religious naturalist
religiousness
religious none
religious order
religious pluralism
religious police
religious priest
religious right
religious service
religious studies
religious toleration
religious tourism
religiousy
scientifico-religious
semireligious
socioreligious
superreligious
suprareligious
ultrareligious
unreligious
Related terms: alethoreligion
aletho-religion
anti-religion
antireligion
antireligiosity
areligiosity
coreligionist
co-religionist
hyperreligion
hyperreligiosity
hyporeligion
hyporeligiosity
interreligiosity
interreligiously
irreligion
irreligiosity
irreligiously
irreligiousness
metareligion
neoreligion
nonreligion
nonreligiosity
nonreligiousness
paleoreligion
parareligion
para-religion
post-religion
postreligion
prereligion
pre-religion
proreligion
pro-religion
proreligiosity
pseudoreligion
pseudo-religion
quasi-religion
quasireligion
quasireligiosity
religion
religionise
religionism
religionist
religionize
religionless
religion-specific
religiosity
subreligion
superreligion