religious
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more religious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most religious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: religious
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: religiouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Concerning religion.
pos: adj
examples: It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
pos: adj
examples: I was much less religious as a teenager than I am now.
gloss: Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
pos: adj
examples: I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
gloss: Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: monastic
religious clergy
religious priest
religious sister
religious brother
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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: A member of a religious order, congregation, or certain other forms of consecrated life, i.e. a monk, nun, sister, brother, friar, or other religious priest.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Antonyms: irreligious
profane
secular
atheistic
areligious
antonym(s) of
diocesan
Related words: 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
Derived words: 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
religious liberty
religiouslike
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
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