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Definition of Religious order
1. Noun. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
Specialized synonyms: Sisterhood, Albigenses, Cathari, Cathars, High Anglican Church, High Church, Abecedarian, Amish Sect, Karaites, Shia, Shiah, Shiah Islam, Sunni, Sunni Islam, Shivaism, Sivaism, Saktism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism, Haredi, Hare Krishna, International Society For Krishna Consciousness, Iskcon, Jainism, Taoism, Kokka, Kokka Shinto, Shua, Shuha Shinto, Brethren, Monastic Order, Order, Quakers, Religious Society Of Friends, Society Of Friends, Shakers, United Society Of Believers In Christ's Second Appearing, Vaudois, Waldenses, Zurvanism
Generic synonyms: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Terms within: Convent
Derivative terms: Sectarian, Sectarian
Definition of Religious order
1. Noun. (religion) A lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Order
Literary usage of Religious order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From that time forward, each religious order has been a corporation of religious
... The religious order then is, properly speaking, an institute fully ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From that time forward, each religious order has been a corporation of religious
... The religious order then is, properly speaking, an institute fully ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From that time forward¡ each religious order has been a corporation of religious
... The religious order then is, properly speaking, an institute fully ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If he is a novice in a religious order, he bec unes a regular in the widest sense
of the word ; as such he is not bound by any vow, but he is protected by ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Prelates who do not belong to a religious order, should wear the rochet over the
soutane during Mass, in so far as this is convenient. ..."
6. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1815)
"Bernard was seconded by several others, who, forming a kind of society, were at
length erected into a religious order by pope Nicholas III. under the rule ..."
7. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Thirdly, the study of letters is becoming in a religious order for a purpose that
is common to every religious order, namely, for avoiding the wantonness of ..."
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