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.-possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.-scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.-belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.-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.