noun
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A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
adjective
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Concerning religion.
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It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
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Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
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I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
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Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
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I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Examples of religious in a Sentence
Josh is religious, but there aren't many men who would claim to understand women.
He was buried, with all religious honours, in the church of St Leonard, Basel.
There is a religious argument for immortality.
As if that were not trial enough, her parents had been ultra religious and conservative.
Being ultra conservative and religious didn't make her parents wrong.
His life was mainly spent in this religious house.
They have also founded great religious institutions.
Thurstan was generous to the churches of his diocese and was the founder of several religious houses.
Religious judgments of value determine objects according to their bearing on our moral and spiritual welfare.
The entire colony had the same religious views, so there was only the need for one church.
The pope was above all a religious man, of a gentle and contemplative character; the cardinal was pre-eminently a man of affairs.
Up to the revolutionary year 1830 his religious views had remained strongly tinged with rationalism, Hegel remaining his guide in religion as in practical politics and the treatment of history.
The "immediate object of theological knowledge is the faith of the community," and from this positive religious datum theology constructs a "total view of the world and human life."
On all disputed points, whether commercial, religious or political, his advice was invariably sought by the foreign ministers and the Chinese alike.
It is by no means certain that he made the remark often attributed to him, "Let us enjoy the papacy since God has given it to us," but there is little doubt that he was by nature devoid of moral earnestness or deep religious feeling.
In 1906 there were in the state 301,565 members of religious denominations, of whom 86.2% were Protestants.
A convention on the religious orders was concluded in 1904, but had not received the assent of the Senate in 1908.
Both passed through phases of faith, but while even Positivism did not cool George Eliot's innate religious fervour, with George Sand religion was a passing experience, no deeper than her republicanism and less lasting than her socialism, and she lived and died a gentle savage.
The objective ground on which he bases his system is the religious experience of the Christian community.
During Lent, many religious people decide to abstain from something to focus more clearly on God.
Her confessor lent her the Genius of Christianity, and to this book she ascribes the first change in her religious views.
A great religious festival is held here every twelfth year.
No government is involved in these organizations, which are instead driven by a combination of religious and civic motives.
Considerations of this latter kind will naturally present themselves in the two great departments of cosmology and psychology, or they may be delegated to an independent research under the name of religious philosophy.
It is philosophy harnessed to a practical and religious interest.
The practice of cutting off the hair of the dead prevailed in India, though it does not appear in the Vedas (Monier-Williams, Religious Thought and Life in India, p. 281).
The religious types also are strongly divergent.
The steps by which the practice of resting from labour on the Lord's day instead of on the Sabbath was established in Christendom and received civil as well as ecclesiastical sanction are dealt with under Sunday; it is enough to observe here that this practice is naturally and even necessarily connected with the religious observance of the Lord's day as a day of worship and religious gladness, and is in full accordance with the principles laid down by Jesus in His criticism of the Sabbath of the Scribes.
They had no special forms of religious worship, and no idols.
There are seven other similar structures in the group. Inishmore also bears the name of Aran-na-naomh, Aran-of-the-Saints, from the number of religious recluses who took up their abode in it, and gave a celebrity to the holy wells, altars and shrines, to which many are still attracted.
The literature of the last two centuries consists mainly of translations and religious works written by ecclesiastics, some of whom were natives of the Albanian colonies in Italy.
These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.
Napier lived in the very midst of fiercely contending religious factions; there was but little theological teaching of any kind, and the work related to what were then the leading political and religious questions of the day.
As has been said of another thinker, he was " one of those deeply religious men who, when crude theological notions are being revised and called in question seek to put new life into theology by wider and more humane ideas."
It was the town council which made arrangements for religious disputations, and provided for the housing and maintenance of the preachers.
The first reforms he wished to see introduced concerned the Lord's Supper, church praise, religious instruction of youth and the regulation of marriage.
In 1801 and 1802 Napoleon took into his own hands the independence of both Catholic and Protestant Churches, the national synod was abolished, and all active religious propaganda was rigorously forbidden.
A majority of the Ulster Protestants were Presbyterians, and in a great religious revival which took place the ministers of the Scottish regiments stationed in Ireland took a leading part.
She has been a zealous supporter of Irish national education, which is theoretically "united secular and separate religious instruction."
As his over-sanguine visions of a new order of things to be ushered in by political change disappeared, he began to direct his thoughts to religious subjects.
By the time the third stage, which placed the seat of soul-life in the brain, was reached through the further advance of anatomical knowledge, the religious rites of Greece and Rome were too deeply incrusted to admit of further radical changes, and faith in the gods had already declined too far to bring new elements into the religion.
It has a bridge across the Cali, and a number of religious and public edifices.
They were at first allowed religious freedom, but became Christians under compulsion in 1300.
The event showed that he judged the situation rightly - the religious scheme announced by him, though not accepted in all its details, became the dominant policy of the later time, and he has been justly called ' The stricter marriage law is formulated in Lev.
Despite the fact that with the exception of the period of the "Great Awakening" (1740-1742), when he preached as an itinerant in several neighbouring colonies, his active labours were confined to his own parish, his influence on the religious thought of his time in America was probably surpassed only by that of his old friend and teacher Jonathan Edwards.
Bonnet resented Lavater's action, but Mendelssohn was bound to reply, though opposed to religious controversy.
Among them secular studies had been neglected, and Mendelssohn saw that he could best remedy the defect by attacking it on the religious side.
Churches and chapels are founded and maintained by religious orders and private gift as well.
The state, the departments, and the communes were thus relieved from the payment of salaries and grants to religious bodies, an item of expenditure which amounted in the last year of the old system to 1,101,000 paid by the state and 302,200 contributed by the departments and communes.
The Laws of 1882 and 1886 laicized the schools of this class, the former suppressing religious instruction, the latter providing that only laymen should be eligible for masterships.