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ncerned 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.

The quality of being religious.

Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South.

In an irreligious manner.

The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.

Irreligious. Wordsworth.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Religious indifference.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

ic feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

ted states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.