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[ UK /ɹɪlˈɪd‍ʒəs/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈɫɪdʒəs, ɹɪˈɫɪdʒəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely scrupulous and conscientious
    religious in observing the rules of health
  2. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
    lords temporal and spiritual
    spiritual songs
    a member of a religious order
    spiritual leaders
    religious texts
  3. of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
    the religious or regular clergy conducts the service
  4. having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
    religious attitude
    a religious man
NOUN
  1. a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience

How To Use religious In A Sentence

  • For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
  • The tax assessor determined that the property was subject to taxation based on its infrequent use for religious purposes. Christianity Today
  • The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
  • Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
  • It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition.
  • Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
  • ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
  • They are also less likely to get support from strong religious or spiritual beliefs.
  • It was also a noteworthy echo of a speech Sarkozy himself made last December, when he called for a "positive laicity" and suggested that the state could ultimately grant subsidies to religious groups. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
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