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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Religious \Re*li"gious\, noun A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Religious \Re*li"gious\ (r?-l?j"?s), adjective [OF. religius, religious, F. religieux, from L. religiosus. See {Religion}.]
1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence. --Milton.
2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God. --Mlton
3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper. --Shak.
4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
One of them is religious. --Chaucer.
Syn: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
religious
adjective
1: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs" [syn: {spiritual}]
2: having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; "a religious man"; "religious attitude" [ant: {irreligious}]
3: extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health"
noun: a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "religious": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God-fearing, Mariological, abbacomes, abbot, accurate, adoring, anthropomorphic, anthropotheistic, ascetic, attentive, awesome, awful, beadsman, believing, brother, caloyer, canonic, careful, celibate, cenobite, churchgoing, close, conscientious, constant, conventual, conventual prior, correct, cosmotheistic, critical, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deistic, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted, devout, direct, ditheistic, divine, doctrinal, doctrinary, dutiful, ethical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, faithful, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, friar, fussy, godly, grand prior, heavenly, hermit, hieromonach, holy, honest, honorable, ineffable, inenarrable, inerrable, inerrant, inexpressible, infallible, inviolable, inviolate, just, lay abbot, lay brother, mathematical, mendicant, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, monastic, monk, monotheistic, moral, narrow, nice, noble, numinous, overconscientious, overscrupulous, palmer, pantheistic, particular, physicomorphic, physicotheological, pietistic, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, pinpoint, pious, polytheistic, prayerful, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prior, punctilious, punctual, refined, religieux, religiously exact, reverent, reverential, righteous, rigid, rigorous, sacred, sacrosanct, scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, severe, solemn, spiritual, spiritual-minded, square, staunch, steadfast, strict, stylite, subtle, tender-conscienced, theistic, theological, tritheistic, true, undeviating, unerring, unspeakable, unswerving, untouchable, unutterable, upright, venerable, venerational, venerative, virtuous, worshipful
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