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religioned

religioned is the simple past and past participle of religion.

Meaning of religion

Verb

religion (third-person singular simple present religions, present participle religioning, simple past and past participle religioned)

  1. Engage in religious practice.
    • On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.1978, Military Chaplains' Review, page 70
  2. Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
    • To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37
  3. To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
    • The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.1994, Timothy Morton, Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, →ISBN, page 238

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Questions about religioned

What is religioned the simple past and past participle of?
Religioned is the simple past and past participle of religion.

Words near religioned in the dictionary

  1. religion
  2. religion of peace
  3. religion of piss
  4. religionaries
  5. religionary
  6. religioned
  7. religioner
  8. religioners
  9. religioning
  10. religionisation
  11. religionise

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