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A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.

One who adheres to Romanism.

Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.

An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.

An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies. [Written also Sabæan, and Sabean.]

An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyères in a blast furnace.

One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. Milton.

The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.

One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.

Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent. The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. Dryden.

One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.

ctarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.

A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter. I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries. Milton.

A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.

An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela." G. P. Marsh.

One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc. "Restrained by reason and severe principles." Jer. Taylor. The Latin, a most severe and compendious language. Dryden.…

An adherent of Shamanism.

(Acæna ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep. -- Sheep run, an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous p…