religion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an institution to express belief in a divine power

   I was raised in the Baptist religion.

2. 2
   noun

   Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

   Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

3. 3
   noun

   A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.

   Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

4. 4
   noun

   The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

   The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.

5. 5
   noun

   Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.

   I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.

6. 6
   noun

   Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.

   At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.

7. 7
   noun

   Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.

   Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!

8. 8
   verb

   Engage in religious practice.

   On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin religiōbor. Old French religionbor. Middle English religioun English religion From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).