Of a person or group of people: bound by vows of religion; belonging to a monastic order, esp. in the Roman Catholic Church.

Of persons. Bound by religious vows. Obsolete.

Of a person: bound by religious vows, devoted to a religious life. Also more generally: designating a person who has made a particular vow. Now histo…

Bound by vows or by a particular vow; appropriate to one who has taken religious vows. Cf. votary, adj. 1.