Re*li"gion*ist, n. One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a
religious zealot.
The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan
religionists.
Palfrey.
It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodo&?;
religionists, was to be scourged out of the town.
Hawthorne.
Re*li"gion*ize (-?z), v. t. To bring under the influence of religion.
[R.] Mallock.
Re*li"gion*less, a. Destitute of religion.
Re*lig`i*os"i*ty (-l?j`?-?s"?-t?), n. [L. religiositas: cf. F.
religiosit&?;.] The quality of being religious; religious feeling or
sentiment; religiousness. [R.] M. Arnold.
Re*li"gious (r?-l?j"?s), a. [OF. religius, religious, F. religieux,
from L. religiosus. See Religion.] 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.
Milton.
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.