Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to religion.
- Pious.
- noun Same as
religionist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Relating to religion; pious.
- noun rare A religionist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Relating to
religion ;pious . - noun dated A
religious zealot ; areligionist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Near at hand, a wild-eyed religionary was trying to persuade a limited and drifting audience that a special dispensation had enabled him to foretell exactly the date of the Second Coming of Christ.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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A race boundary involves almost inevitably a cultural boundary, often, too, a linguistic and religionary, occasionally a political boundary.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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So did a certain cafard or dissembling religionary preach at Sinay, that Saint Anthony sent the fire into men's legs, that Saint Eutropius made men hydropic, Saint Clidas, fools, and that Saint Genou made them goutish.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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So did a certain cafard or dissembling religionary preach at Sinay, that Saint Anthony sent the fire into men’s legs, that Saint Eutropius made men hydropic, Saint Clidas, fools, and that Saint Genou made them goutish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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So did a certain cafard or dissembling religionary preach at Sinay, that Saint Anthony sent the fire into men’s legs, that Saint Eutropius made men hydropic, Saint Clidas, fools, and that Saint Genou made them goutish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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