Word Meanings - RELIGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: RELIGIOUS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELIGIOUS)

• Devout
• religious
• pious
• godly
• saintly
• holy
• prayerful
• Sacred
• Holy
• divine
• hallowed
• consecrated
• inviolable
• Solemn
• formal
• devotional
• reverential
• ritual
• ceremonial
• impressive
• grave
• serious

Related words: (words related to RELIGIOUS)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• SACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SACRIFICANT
  One who offers a sacrifice.
• REVERENTIALLY
  In a reverential manner.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• SACRILEGE
  The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege
• SACRE
  See SAKKER
• SOLEMNIZATE
  To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize