religious
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
religious/rɪˈlɪʤəs/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to or believing in a religion.
■ belonging or relating to a monastic order or other group united by their practice of religion.
- 2 treated or regarded with a devotion and scrupulousness appropriate to worship.
– derivatives
religiously adverb,
religiousness noun.
religiously adverb,
religiousness noun.
'religious' also found in these Oxford entries:
Ab
- acolyte
- Adar
- altar
- amice
- amrit
- anchorite
- animalism
- anoint
- anthem
- ashram
- assassin
- assassinate
- augur
- Augustinian
- ayatollah
- ba gua
- bar mitzvah
- bat mitzvah
- belief
- believe
- benedicite
- Benedictine
- Beth Din
- bless
- bonze
- Br.
- brethren
- brother
- bullroarer
- burnt offering
- buttress
- caliph
- carol
- catechesis
- catechetical
- catechism
- celebrate
- celibate
- ceremony
- chapter
- chapter house
- cheder
- chivalry
- civil law
- civil marriage
- claustral
- clergy
- cleric
- colporteur
