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▪ I. † reˈligiose, n. Obs. rare—1. [ad. Sp. religiosa.] = religieuse 1.
1697tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 82 The keeper of the Castle askt me, whether I would see the Religioses, whose Convent is adjoyning thereunto. ▪ II. religiose, a.|rɪlɪdʒɪˈəʊs| [f. as religious + -ose.] Religious to excess; unduly occupied with religion; morbidly or sentimentally religious.
1853Clough Let. in Poems, etc. (1869) I. 196 Some of my companions are too much in the religiose vein to be always quite wholesome company. 1885L'pool Daily Post 23 Oct. 4/7 Qualities not specially congenial to the theological or religiose mind. 1932[see beglamour v.]. 1966I. Jefferies House-Surgeon ix. 168 It was only later, when they were improving, that they would complain about their neighbours, or become religiose, or mutter. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 1319/2 Donald's parents—the dying, religiose father and steely, moralizing mother—inhabit an area of real, alarming unsavouriness. 1975J. Nicoll Dante Gabriel Rossetti ii. 48 An unhappy love affair with Rossetti's religiose sister Christina. ▪ III. religiose obs. form of religious. |