Reverse Dictionary: RELIGION

ADJECTIVES
► BIBLE-SCANT neglected in a religious sense → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CULTIC relating to religious worship, esp. as expressed in ceremony or ritual directed towards a particular figure or object; relating to a cult → 1877
► CULTUAL relating to religious worship, esp. as expressed in ceremony or ritual directed towards a particular figure or object; relating to a cult → 1886
► DISSENTIOUS inclined to differ or dissent in religious or ecclesiastical matters → a1568 obs.
► GOD-BOTHERING deeply religious → sl., orig. military
► GOD-FEARING deeply religious; that fears God
► GRACIE devout, religious; well-behaved → 1825 Sc.
► HAPPY overcome with religious enthusiasm → 1851 Amer. dial.
► HARD-SHELL. rigid and uncompromising in religious orthodoxy → 1857
► LATITUDINARIAN characterized by latitude in opinion or action, esp. in matters of religion; not insisting on strict adherence to or conformity with an established code → 1672
► LATITUDINARY characterized by latitude in opinion or action, esp. in matters of religion; not insisting on strict adherence to or conformity with an established code → 1834
► MYSTAGOGIC concerned with instruction or initiation in religious mysteries → 1631
► MYSTAGOGICAL concerned with instruction or initiation in religious mysteries → 1624
► PI pious, excessively religious → 1981 sl.
► RAISED ON PRUNES AND PROVERBS said of a fastidious and religiously inclined person → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)

ADVERBS
► CULTICALLY with regard to religious ritual or worship → 1877

NOUNS
► ADIAPHORY indifference, impartiality, neutrality; religious indifference → 1658
► ANGEL FOOD religious preaching; used disparagingly → 1926 Amer. hobo sl.
► ASSOCIATION an annual religious gathering → 1824 Amer. dial.
► BAD RELIGION reprehensible or hypocritical behaviour on the part of a person purporting to be religious → 1953 Amer. dial.
► BLUE-DOMEISM the preference for worshipping outdoors rather than in a church → 1944
► CANT the peculiar phraseology of a religious sect or class → 1681 obs.
► CONVINCEMENT religious conversion → 1933 Amer. dial.
► CULT a paying reverential homage to a divine being; religious worship → 1613
► CULTUS religious worship or veneration; an organized system of religious worship or ceremony → 1617
► ENTHEOMANIA a mania for religion → 1991 (Bk.)
► ERLIGION religion → 1898 Amer. dial.
► FALLING DOWN a dropping to the ground in uncontrollable ecstasy during a religious experience or conversion → 1850 Amer. dial.
► FALLING EXERCISE a dropping to the ground in uncontrollable ecstasy during a religious experience or conversion → 1807 Amer. dial.
► FAY religious belief, faith → a1300 obs. or arch.
► GOD SQUAD a disparaging term for (the members of) a religious organization, esp. an evangelical Christian group → 1965 sl., orig. US students’ sl.
► JERKS religious paroxysm → 1874 Amer. sl.
► LAY law, esp. religious law;  hence, a religion, a faith → a1225 obs.
► MAGIC SHOW a religious service → 1978 US Marine Corps usage
► MEETING a religious service; an assembly for worship → 1687 Amer. dial.
► MUMMERY AND MILLINERY religious ritualism → 20C sl.
► NIHILISM indifference to every religion → 1817
► POLYPIETY the recognition or toleration of many religions or forms of belief → 1647 obs.
► POWER religious ecstasy → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SECTIUNCLE a small, insignificant religious body; a little or petty sect → 1851
► SECTIUNCULE a small, insignificant religious body; a little or petty sect → 1851
► THEOMANIA a religious madness in which a person believes he is God or is inspired by God → 1991 (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON (also see CLERGYMAN, PRIEST, etc.)
► ABBA a religious superior; father; the title of bishops, patriarchs, and heads of monasteries in some Eastern churches → 1382
► AMEN-SNORTER a religious person, esp. a clergyman → L19 sl.
► AUTEM-DIPPER an Anabaptist → 17C sl.
► BABA a spiritual leader or minister of religion of a Sufi order; spec., the head of a tekke; also, a title or form of address → 1759
► BALAAM one who makes a profit from his own religion → 1922 (Bk.)
► BALAAMITE one who follows religion for the sake of gain → 1559
► BEAD-COUNTER a term of contempt for a clergyman or an overtly religious person; a recluse → 1809 UK sl.
► BEAD-MASTER a religious officer who attends to the poor, a deacon → 1579 obs.
► BENCH-JUMPER a holy roller → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-BACK a pious or sanctimonious person; one obsessed with religion → 1840 sl., often derogatory
► BIBLE-BANGER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman; a preacher; an enthusiastically religious person  → 1853 colloq.
► BIBLE-BASHER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman; a religious fanatic → 1942 colloq. 
► BIBLE-BEATER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-BUSTER a clergyman; a religious fanatic → 1904 US sl.
► BIBLE-POUNDER a parson; a fanatical or zealous religious person or lay preacher → 1868 colloq.
► BIBLE-PUNCHER one who expounds or follows the Bible in a vigorous and aggressive manner, esp. a clergyman; a religious person who thrusts their beliefs on any who will listen and many who would rather not → 1897 colloq., often derogatory
► BIBLE-RANTER a clergyman, a preacher; a fanatical or zealous religious person → 1876 US sl.
► BIBLE-SPOUTER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1955 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-SWINGER a notably religious person who expounds or follows the Bible in a vigorous and aggressive manner, esp. a clergyman → 1958 sl., often derogatory
► BIBLE-THRASHER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman; a religious fanatic → 1881 colloq. 
► BIBLE-THUMPER a notably religious person who expounds or follows the Bible in a vigorous and aggressive manner, esp. a clergyman → 1866 sl., often derogatory 
► BIBLE-TOTER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1940 Amer. dial.
► BIGOT a hypocritical professor of religion; also, a superstitious adherent of religion → 1598 obs.
► BLACKCOAT a minister of religion → 1911 Sc.  (Bk.)
► BLACKTRACKER a nickname for a religious person who is overly dependent on their spiritual adviser → 1900-10 Aust. sl.
► BLUE-DOMEIST a person who does not go to church, preferring to worship outdoors beneath the ‘blue dome’ of heaven → 1935
► BLUE-DOMER a person who does not go to church, preferring to worship outdoors beneath the ‘blue dome’ of heaven → 1899 colloq.
► BUSH BAPTIST a person of dubious religious persuasion or one who has no religious persuasion at all; a religious crackpot → 1902 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CALATHUMPIAN 1. one who claims an imaginary religion → 1910s sl.
2. a person of vague religious beliefs, not necessarily associated with a particular denomination → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CANT  one who uses religious phrases unreally → 1725
► CHRISTACRUTCHIAN a religious hypocrite → 1997 US sl.
► CHRISTIAN an overly religious person → 1838 UK sl.
► CHRIST-SHOUTER an overly religious person → 1922 US sl.
► DIPPER an Anabaptist → 19C sl.
► FALLAWAY one who falls away from religion; an apostate → 1682 obs.
► GOD-BOTHERER a deeply religious person → sl., orig. military
► HELL-ROBBER an overtly religious person → 1930s US sl.
► HOLY JOE an enthusiastically religious person → 1889 sl.
► HOLY WILLIE an enthusiastically religious person → 1916 sl. 
► HOMEBOY an ex-inmate of a religious institution → 1950s Irish sl.
► LAP-EAR a person of a religious character → 1851 US students’ sl.
► LATITUDE-MAN one who practices or favours latitude in thought, action, or conduct, esp. in religious matters → 1662 obs.
► LATITUDINARIAN one who practices or favours latitude in thought, action, or conduct, esp. in religious matters → 1662
► LONG EAR a sober, religious student → M19 US students’ sl.
► MEETINGER one who takes part in a religious services → 1858 Amer. dial.
► MOD a person who holds moderate views in politics, religion, etc. → 1907 Sc. Church Hist.
► MOTHER any woman having religious authority → c1480 obs.
► MOTHER GENERAL in the Christian Church: a female head of a religious order → 1865
► MYST a person initiated into mysteries, esp. religious mysteries → 1693 obs.
► MYSTAGOGUE a person who instructs or initiates people in religious mysteries → c1540
► NARROW-NECK a devoutly religious person; a ‘holy roller’ → 1968 Amer. dial.
► NEOPHYTE a new convert; one newly admitted to a church or religious body; also, a newly ordained priest, or a novice of a religious order → a1550
► NOTHINGARIAN a person of no religion → 1789 Amer.
► OBLATE a person devoted to a monastery or to religious work → 1864
► OMNIST one who believes in all religions → 1839 obs.
► PRECISIAN a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, esp. in matters of religion 
► PROFESSOR a person who makes public avowal of his religious beliefs and faith → 1656 US
► PURITAN a person who is characterized by extreme strictness in religion, morals, etc. → 1592 chiefly depreciative usage
► ROLY HOLER a religious person → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SAINT a notably religious student → E19 US students’ sl.
► SIM a quiet, religious (esp. if evangelical) man → c1851 Cambridge usage
► TABLE-GOSPELLER one who makes table talk of the gospel; one whose religion is mere talk → 1610 obs.
► TARTUFE ► TARTUFFE a hypocritical pretender to religion → 1688
► VOTEEN a ‘devotee’; a very religious person → 1843 Ireland
► WAITER AT THE ALTAR one in minor orders → 1648 obs.
► WALKER a colporteur or tract-distributor; one employed by a religious society to distribute Bibles and other religious tracts → 1846

VERBS
► CANT to affect religious or pietistic phraseology; to talk unreally or hypocritically with an affectation of goodness or piety → 1678
► COME THROUGH to be converted to a religious life; to get religion → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DIG WITH THE SAME FOOT to belong to the same religious denomination → 1900 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► DIG WITH THE WRONG FOOT to belong to a different religious denomination to that of the speaker → 1892 N. Ireland
► EXERCISE to conduct a religious service → 1633 US
► GET HAPPY to experience religious enthusiasm → 1884 Amer. dial.