- (a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
- (a.) Possessing or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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