superstitious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance

   They finally realized that the horror they felt was superstitious in origin.

2. 2
   adj

   Susceptible to superstitions.

   Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.

3. 3
   adj

   Arising from or having the character of superstitions.

4. 4
   adj

   Overexact; unnecessarily scrupulous.

From Old French superstitieux, from Latin superstitiōsus, from superstitio + -ōsus.

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