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To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally. Buckle.

nder the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

Opposed to the Christian religion.

Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

e faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

n his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

ers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means…

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak.

mes of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. " Audacious traitor." Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." Milton.

When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

s.] "Awkward casualties." "Awkward wind." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker.