Religious /(r?-l?j"?s)/

Re·li·gious

Religious

a.
  1. 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.
  2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
    Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God.
  3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
    Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper.
  4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
    One of them is religious.

Religious

n.
  1. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.