| 单词 | religious |
| 释义 | religious (once / 65 pages) adjn Religious, besides meaning "having to do with religion," can also mean "acting as if something is a religion." If you have never missed a broadcast of your favorite TV show for the last five years, then you're religious about it. Just as religion is a broad concept with multiple manifestations, the word religious can be used in many contexts. You could literally be describing someone's particular religious duties as prescribed by his religion. If you have a religious temperament, you think about spiritual things a lot. If someone is a fanatic about football, you could describe him as a religious fan. That doesn't mean he thinks the football is God, just that he really, really cares. WORD FAMILYreligious: irreligious, religiosity, religiouses, religiousism, religiously, religiousness+/coreligionist: coreligionists/irreligion: irreligionist/irreligionist: irreligionists/irreligious: irreligiously, irreligiousness/religion: coreligionist, irreligion, religionism, religions, religious/religionism: religionist/religionist: religionists/religiosity: religiosities USAGE EXAMPLESIts decision was so ham-handed that the Justice Department hit Culpeper County with a lawsuit last month based on the Religious Land Use act. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “The idea that Mr. Brunson’s arrest was related to his religious affiliation is ludicrous,” a senior Turkish official told me. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Despite political, social or religious viewpoints that may divide us, a common allegiance to our team finds us focusing on the same goal. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity a religious man religious attitude Syn|Ant pious having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity churchgoingactively practicing a religion churchlyresembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church devout, god-fearingdeeply religious interfaithinvolving persons of different religious faiths irreligious hostile or indifferent to religion impiouslacking piety or reverence for a god atheistic, atheistical, unbelievingrejecting any belief in gods ethnic, heathen, heathenish, pagannot acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam lapsed, nonchurchgoingno longer active or practicing nonobservantfailing or refusing to observe religious customs 2adj concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church religious texts a member of a religious order Syn spiritual sacred concerned with religion or religious purposes 3adj of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows the religious or regular clergy conducts the service Ant secular of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows 4adj extremely scrupulous and conscientious religious in observing the rules of health Syn scrupulous having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled 5n a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience Exp|Hypo|Hyper Thomas Merton United States religious and writer (1915-1968) Roger BaconEnglish scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) Saint BenedictItalian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547) Saint BridgetIrish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523) Heloisestudent and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164) Gregor MendelAugustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884) Pelagiusa British or Irish monk who denied the doctrines of original sin and predestination and defended human goodness and free will; his views were declared heretical by the Council of Ephesus in 431 (circa 360-418) Girolamo SavonarolaItalian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498) Agnes Gonxha BojaxhiuIndian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) friar, mendicant a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms monastic, monka male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work Benedictinea monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict Jesuita member of the Jesuit order nuna woman religious eremitea Christian recluse cenobite, coenobitea member of a religious order living in common superiorthe head of a religious community votaryone bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service abbess, mother superior, prioressthe superior of a group of nuns abbot, archimandritethe superior of an abbey of monks Brother(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address Carthusiana member of the Carthusian order priorthe head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot anchorite, hermitone retired from society for religious reasons Sister(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address) Cistercian, Trappistmember of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence Carmelite, White Friara Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers Black Friar, Blackfriar, Dominican, friar preachera Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order Franciscan, Grey Friara Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order Augustiniana Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders religious person a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
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