religionism 
This subject of " Political Religionism " is indeed as nice 
as it is curious : politics have been so cunningly worked 
into the cause of religion that the parties themselves will 
never be able to separate them. 
/. D'lsraeli, Curios, of Lit., IV. 138. 
2. Affected religious zeal. 
religionist (re-lij'on-ist), . [= Sp. religionista; 
as religion + -ist.]" A religious bigot, partizan, 
or formalist; a sectarian: sometimes used in 
other than a condemnatory sense. 
From the same source from whence, among the religion- 
ists, the attachment to the principle of asceticism took its 
rise, flowed other doctrines and practices, from which 
misery in abundance was produced in one man by the in- 
strumentality of another : witness the holy wars, and the 
persecutions for religion. 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, II. 8. 
There is a verse ... in the second of the two detached 
cantos of "Mutability," ''Like that ungracious crew 
which feigns demurest grace," which is supposed to 
glance at the straiter religionists. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 167. 
religionize (re-lij'on-iz), v. ; pret. and pp. re- 
ligionized, ppr. religionizing. [< religion + -ize.~] 
I. trans. To imbue with religion; make reli- 
gious. [Recent.] 
I have quoted Othello and Mrs. Craven's heroine as 
types of love when religionised. 
ilatlock, Is Life Worth Living? p. 122. 
H. intrans. To make professions of religion; 
play the religionist. [Recent.] 
How much religionizing stupidity It requires In one to 
imagine that God can be propitiated or pleased with them 
[human inventions). 
S. H. Cox, Interviews Memorable and Useful, p. 138. 
Also spelled religionise. 
religionless (re-lij'pn-les), a. [< religion + 
-less.] Without religion ; not professing or be- 
lieving in religion ; irreligious. 
Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, sel- 
fish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing 
in pain and fear, . . . and ere you be old, learn to love 
and pray ! Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlv. 
religiosity (re-lij-i-os'i-ti), n. [< ME. 
ite, < OF. religiosete, religieusete, F. religic 
= Sp. religiosidad = Pg. religiosidade = It. re- 
ligiosita, < LL. religiosita(t-)s, religiousness, 
ML. religious or monastic life, < L. religiosus, 
religious: see religious.] 1. Religiousness; 
the sentiment of religion; specifically, in re- 
cent use, an excessive susceptibility to the 
religious sentiments, especially wonder, awe, 
and reverence, unaccompanied by any corre- 
sponding loyalty to divine law in daily life; 
religious sentimentality. 
One Jewish quality these Arabs manifest, the outcome 
of many or of all high qualities : what we may call religi- 
osity. Carlyle, Heroes and Hero- Worship, ii. 
Away . . . from that religiosity which is one of the 
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Hie thee to France, 
And cloister thee in some religious house. 
Shale., Rich. II., v. 1. 23. 
The fourth, which was a painter called lohn Story, be- 
came religious in the College of S. Paul in Goa. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 270. 
relish 
leaving, or quitting; a forsaking; the renoun- 
cing of a claim. 
This Is the thing they require in us, the utter relin- 
yuishment of all things popish. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 3. 
3. Bound by or abiding by some solemn obliga- reliqua (rel'i-kwa), n. pi. [ML. (OF., etc.), 
tion; scrupulously faithful; conscientious. neut. pi. of L. reliquus, relicuus, that which is 
Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me, 
With thy religious truth and modesty, 
Now in his ashes honour : peace be with him. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., Iv. 2. 74. 
4. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with 
religion; teaching or setting forth religion; 
set apart for purposes connected with religion : 
as, a religious society ; a religious sect ; a reli- 
gious place; religious subjects; religious books 
or teachers; religious liberty. 
And storied windows richly (light, 
Casting a dim religious light. 
Milton, H Penseroso, 1. 160. 
Fanes which admiring gods with pride survey, . . . 
Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age, 
Some hostile fury, some religious rage. 
Pope, To Addison, 1. 12. 
Religious corporation. See corporation. Religious 
house, a monastery or a nunnery. Religious liberty. 
See liberty. Religious marks, in printing, signs such 
as #, Jk, f, indicating respectively 'sign of the cross,' 
'response,' and 'versicle.' Religious uses. See VK. 
=8yn. 1. Devotional. 3. Scrupulous, exact, strict, rigid. 
See religion. 
II. n. One who is bound by monastic vows, 
as a monk, a friar, or a nun. 
Ac there shal come a kyng and confesse jow religiouses, 
And bete sow, as the bible telleth, for brekynge of goure 
renle. Piers Plowman (B), x. 817. 
It Is very lucky for a religious, who has so much time 
on his hands, to be able to amuse himself with works of 
this nature [inlaying a pulpit). 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), 1. 370. 
A religious in any other order can pass into that of tke 
Carthusians, on account of its great austerity. 
Rom. Cath. Diet., p. 699. 
religiously (re-lij'us-li), adv. In a religious 
manner, (a) Piously; with love and reverence to the 
Supreme Being ; in obedience to the divine commands ; 
according to the rites of religion ; reverently ; with venera- 
tion. 
For their brethren slain 
Religiously they ask a sacrifice. 
Shak., Tit. And., L 1. 124. 
We most religiously kiss'd the sacred Rust of this 
Weapon, out of Love to the Martyr. 
ff. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 27. 
(6) Exactly ; strictly ; conscientiously : as, a vow or prom- 
ise religiously observed. 
The privileges justly due to the members of the two 
Houses and their attendants are religiously to be main- 
tained. Bacon. 
My old-fashioned friend religiously adhered to the ex- 
ample of his forefathers. Steele, Taller, No. 263. 
curses of our time, he studied his New Testament, and _.,,.. , - ,.., J,, 
in this, as in every other matter, made up his mind for religiousness (re-llj us-nes), n. The character 
himself. Dr. j. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 174. or state of being religious, in any sense of that 
word. Baxter. 
A Middle English form of relic. 
K L. re- 
Is there a more patent and a more stubborn fact in his- 
tory than that intense and mi 
ality with its equally ini 
. Church, I. 817. relinquent (re-lin g ;kwent), a. and n. 
2. Religious exercise or service. [Rare.] 
Soporific sermons . . . closed the domestic religiosities 
of those melancholy days. Southey, The Doctor, ix. 
3f. Members of the religious orders. 
Hir [Diana's] law [the law of chastity] is for religiosite. 
Court of Love, 1. 686. 
= Syn. 1. Piety, Holiness, etc. See religion. 
religiose (re-le-ji-6'so), adv. [It.: see religious.] 
linqiien(t-)s, ppr. of relinquere, relinquish: see 
relinquish.'] j. a. Relinquishing. [Rare.] Imp. 
Diet. 
H. n. One who relinquishes. [Rare.] Imp. 
Diet. 
relinquish (re-ling'kwish), v. t. [< OF. relin- 
quiss-, stem o'f certain parts of relinquir, releii- 
quir, < L. relinquere, pp. relictus, leave, < re- + 
In S ^ it f SSi'nT ' ** **"*] Unauere, leave? see > Ucense, and 'T& relict, 
_ n ,/".l 6 IC ' ! n a ,_ dev ? tlonal manner ! expressing al j aeK ' nauen t-i [ . To (rive the 
religious sentiment. 
religious (re-lij'us), a. and . [< ME. reli- 
gious, reliflius, < OF. religios, religius, religieus, 
religieux, F. religieux = Pr. religios, relegios = 
Sp. Pg. It. religioso, < L. religiosus, relligiosus, 
religious, < religio(n-), relligio(n-), religion: see 
religion.'] I. a. 1. Imbued with, exhibiting, or 
and delinquent.] 1. To give up the possession 
or occupancy of ; withdraw from; leave; aban- 
don; quit. 
To be relinquished of the artists, . . . both of Galen and 
Paracelsus, ... of all the learned and authentic fellows 
. . . that gave him out incurable. 
Shak., All's Well, 11. 3. 10. 
- , **..***,. V mg, VFI Having formed an attachment to this young lady, . . . 
arising from religion; pious; godly; devout- I have * ound ; that I must relinquish all other objects not 
^OSSSSSSiSX^S^ ''''S^^CH^I^O--,,.,,* 
observance (Jas. i.26; Acts xiii. 43). 
Such a prince, 
Not only good and wise, but most religious. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 8. 116. 
That sober race of men whose lives 
Religious titled them the sons of God. 
Milton, t. L., xi. 622. 
It (dogma) is discerned, rested in, and appropriated as 
a reality by the religious imagination ; it is held as a 
truth by the theological intellect. 
J. H. Neurman, Gram, of Assent, p. 94. 
2T>,._4. , ""x** ro uc " l " = Qyii. i. -aoanaon, I/CSCTT, etc. (see/or- 
. Pertaining or devoted to a monastic life; *), let go, yield, cede, surrender, give up, lay down, 
belonging to a religious order; in the Jlom. s <;? list under desert. 
Cath. Ch., bound by the vows of a monastic re |linquisher (re-ling'kwish-er), n. One who re- 
order ; regular. linquishes, leaves, or quits ; one who renounces 
Shal I nat love In cas if that me list* 1 or gives up. 
What, pardieux, lam noght re^iouw? relinqmshment (re-ling'kwish-ment), n. [< 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 759. relinquish + -went.] The act of relinquishing, 
left or remains over (> Pg. reliquo, remaining), 
< relinquere, leave behind : see relic, relinquish.} 
In law, the remainder or debt which a person 
finds himself debtor in, upon the balancing or 
liquidating of an account. Wharton. 
reliquaire(rel-i-kwar'), n. [<.f.riliquatre: see 
reliquary*.] Same as reliquary*. Scott, Roke- 
by, vi. 6. 
reliquary 1 (rel'i-kwa-ri), .; pi. reliquaries (-riz). 
[< OF. reliquaire, F. reliquaire = Pr. reliquiari 
= Sp. Pg. relicario = It. reliquiario, < ML. re- 
liquiare or reliquiarium, a reliquary, < L. reli- 
quise, relics: seerelic.~] A repository for relics, 
often, though not necessarily, small enough to 
be carried on the person. See shrine, and cut 
under phylacterium. 
Under these cupolas is y high altar, on which is a reli- 
quarie of several! sorts of Jewells. 
Evelyn, Diary, June, 1645. 
Sometimes, too, the hollow of our Saviour's image, 
wrought in high relief upon the cross, was contrived for 
a reliquary, and filled full of relics. 
Socle, Church of our Fathers, III. L 857. 
reliquary 2 (rel 'i-kwa-ri), . ; pi. reliquaries (-riz). 
[< ML. *reliquarius,\ reliqua, what is left over: 
see reliqua.'] In law, one who owes a balance ; 
also, a person who pays only piecemeal. Whar- 
ton. 
relique, . An obsolete or archaic spelling of 
relic. 
reliquiae (re-lik'wi-e), n. pi. [L., leavings, re- 
mains, relics, remnants: see relic.] 1. Relics; 
remains, as those of fossil organisms. 2. In 
bot., same as induvix. 3. In archeeol., arti- 
facts. See artifact. 
Without the slightest admixture of either British or 
Saxon religuuf. Jour. Brit. Archseol. Ats., XIII. 291. 
reliquian (re-lik'wi-an), a. [< L. reliquiae, relics 
(see relic), + -an.] Of, pertaining to, or being 
a relic or relics. 
A great ship would not hold the reliquian pieces which 
the Papists have of Christ's cross. 
A Hill, Pathway to Piety (1629), p. 149. (Eneyc. Diet.) 
reliquidate (re-lik'wi-dat), . t. [< re- + liqui- 
date.] To liquidate anew ; adjust a second time. 
Wright. 
reliquidation (re-lik-wi-da'shon), n. [< reliqui- 
date + -ion; or < re- + liquidation.'] A second 
or renewed liquidation ; a renewed adjustment. 
Clarke. 
relish 1 (rel'ish), v. [Not found in ME. (where, 
however, the noun exists); according to the 
usual view, < OF. relecher, lick over again, < re-, 
again, + lecher, lescher, F. ttcher, lick: see lick, 
and cf. lecher, etc. But the word may have 
been due in part to OF. relescier, releichier, res- 
leechier, resleecier, relesser, please, cause or in- 
spire joy in, gratify, < re- + leecier, leechier, lees- 
ser, etc., rejoice, live in pleasure.] I. trans. 1. 
To like the taste or flavor of; partake of with 
pleasure or gratification. 
No marvel if the blind roan cannot judge of colours, nor 
the deaf distinguish sounds, nor the sick relish meats. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 364. 
2. To be pleased with or gratified by, in gen- 
eral; have a liking for; enjoy; experience or 
cause to experience pleasure from. 
There 's not a soldier of us all that, in the thanksgiving 
before meat, do relish the petition well that prays for peace. 
., M. for M., i. 2. 16. 
2. To cease from ; give up the pursuit or prac- 
tice of; desist from: as, to relinquish bad habits. 
With commandement to relinquish (for his owne part) 
the intended attempt. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. ii. 194. 
Sir C. Cornwallis, in a Letter to the Lord Cranburne, as- 
serts that England never lost such an Opportunity of win- 
ning Honour and Wealth unto it, as by relinquishing War 
against an exhausted Kingdom. 
Bolingbroke, Remarks on Hist. Eng., let. 22. 
3. To renounce a claim to; resign: as, to re- 
linquish a debt. = Syn. 1. Abandon, Desert, etc. (see for- 
No one will ever relish an author thoroughly well who 
would not have been fit company for that author had they 
lived at the same time. Steele, Tatler, No. 178. 
He 's no bad fellow, Blougram he had seen 
Something of mine he relished. 
Browning, Bishop Blougram 's Apology. 
3. To give an agreeable taste to; impart a 
pleasing flavor to ; cause to taste agreeably. 
A sav'ry bit that serv'd to relish wine. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., vlil. 109. 
4f. To savor of ; have a smack or taste of; have 
the cast or manner of. 
'Tls ordered well, and relisheth the soldier. 
Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, v. 1. 
Inc. Sir, he 's found, he 's found. 
Phil. Ha ! where? but reach that happy note again, 
And let it relish truth, thou art an angel. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Pilgrimage, iv. 2. 
II. intrans. 1. To have a pleasing taste ; in 
general, to give pleasure. 
