religious
//ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒəs//
Forms
- Comparative
- more religious
- Superlative
- most religious
- Plural
- religious
Definitions
1.Concerning religion.
- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- 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.
2.Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- I was much less 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.
4.Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
1.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.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1026
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.