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Canting :: Canting (a.) Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone..

Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives..

Mechitarist :: Mechitarist (n.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

Nun :: Nun (n.) A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience..

Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday..

Gens :: Gens (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe..

Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..

Sanctity :: Sanctity (n.) Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath..

Thanksgiving :: Thanksgiving (n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties..

Revivalist :: Revivalist (n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively..

Religious :: Religious (n.) 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..

Religionist :: Religionist (n.) One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.

World :: World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world..

Fraternity :: Fraternity (n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc..

Theopathy :: Theopathy (n.) Capacity for religious affections or worship.

Colportage :: Colportage (n.) The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs..

Anathema :: Anathema (n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed..

Mosque :: Mosque (n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.

Indispose :: Indispose (v. t.) To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties..

Catechism :: Catechism (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers..

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