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In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Defeat; rout; overthrow. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to, or designating, the acid liquid obtained in the distillation of wood, consisting essentially of impure acetic acid.

A crude acetate produced by treating pyroligneous acid with a metal or basic compound; as, pyrolignite of iron (iron liquor).

Same as Pyroligneous.

eighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night. [Colloq. or Cant]

Eligble again; capable of reëlection; as, reëligible to the same office. -- Re*ël`i*gi*bil"i*ty (r, n.

To light or kindle anew.

A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.

e conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers. An orderly life so far as others are able to observe us is now and then produced by prudential motive…

Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions. [Obs.]

A religionist. [R.]

The practice of, or devotion to, religion.

One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

To bring under the influence of religion. [R.] Mallock.

Destitute of religion.

The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. [R.] M. Arnold.

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.

In a religious manner. Drayton.