<B>religiosity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>religious feeling or sentiment; piety. <DD><B> 2. </B>affectation of religious feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. there is too much noisy religiosity on the public level in the U.S. (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>religioso, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) expressing religious sentiment; devotional. <BR> <I>Ex. What appeals to me as impressive and rewarding is Poulenc's willingness to follow his expressive urge where it leads him, whether the mode is ... secular, religioso, whatever (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>religious, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-gious.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of religion; connected with religion. <BR> <I>Ex. religious meetings, religious freedom, religious differences. Technically speaking a religious book is produced by a religious writer (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>much interested in religion; devoted to the worship of God or gods. <BR> <I>Ex. She is very religious and goes to church every day.</I> (SYN) pious, devout. <DD><B> 3. </B>belonging to an order of monks, nuns, friars, or the like. <DD><B> 4. </B>of or connected with such an order. <BR> <I>Ex. a shaven head, and a religious habit (Joseph Addison).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>strict; done with care; very careful. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother gave religious attention to the doctor's orders.</I> (SYN) exact, scrupulous. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a monk, nun, friar, or the like; member of a religious order. <BR> <I>Ex. There are sixty religious teaching in this church school.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such persons as a group. <BR> <I>Ex. One of Sister Benedicta's fellow religious at Echt soon received a brief message (Time).</I> adv. <B>religiously.</B> noun <B>religiousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>religious education,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> instruction in the beliefs of a religion, as in Sunday school. </DL>
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<B>reline, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lined,</B> <B>-lining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to mark with new lines; renew the lines of. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put a new lining in. <BR> <I>Ex. Steel furnaces must be relined frequently (Wall Street Journal).</I> noun <B>reliner.</B> </DL>
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<B>relinquish, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to give up; let go; release. <BR> <I>Ex. The small dog relinquished his bone to the big dog.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to abandon. <BR> <I>Ex. She has relinquished all hope of going to Europe this year.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to renounce; resign. <BR> <I>Ex. to relinquish a throne.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to withdraw from; leave. <BR> <I>Ex. Most of them relinquished Spain, as a country where they could no longer live in security (Washington Irving).</I> noun <B>relinquisher.</B> </DL>
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<B>relinquishment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or fact of giving up; abandonment; surrender. <BR> <I>Ex. All food rationing in Britain came to an end ... with the relinquishment by the food ministry of control over meat and bacon (Walter Yust).</I> </DL>
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<B>reliquary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-quaries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a small box or other receptacle for a relic or relics. <BR> <I>Ex. We stopt at St. Denis, [and] saw ... crucifixes, ... crowns, and reliquaries of inestimable value (Thomas Gray).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a relic or relics. <BR> <I>Ex. ... two most curious specimens of reliquary superstition (George S. Faber). There could be no doubt that here was an Italian 15th century reliquary bust (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>relique, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a relic. </DL>
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<B>reliquiae, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> remains, as those of fossil animals or plants. </DL>
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<B>reliquidate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-dated,</B> <B>-dating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to liquidate anew; adjust a second time. </DL>
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<B>reliquidation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. </DL>
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<B>relish, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a pleasant taste; good flavor. <BR> <I>Ex. Hunger gives relish to simple food.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>something to add flavor to food. Olives, pickles, and peppers are relishes. <DD><B> b. </B>chopped pickles, peppers, and other pickled fruit or vegetables, with slightly sweet seasoning. <DD><B> 3. </B>a slight dash (of something). <DD><B> 4. </B>liking; appetite; enjoyment. <BR> <I>Ex. The hungry boy ate with great relish. (Figurative.) The teacher has no relish for old jokes. The cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence (Jane Austen).</I> (SYN) zest. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to take pleasure or delight in; like the taste of; enjoy. <BR> <I>Ex. A cat relishes cream.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to care for or be pleased with; approve of or like. <BR> <I>Ex. We did not relish the prospect of staying after school. This doctrine ... was not much relished by a great part of the audience (Robert Graves).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to give flavor to; make pleasing. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to have a taste. <BR> <I>Ex. It will make everything relish of religion (Jeremy Taylor).</I> noun <B>relisher.</B> adv. <B>relishingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>relishable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be relished. </DL>
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<B>relisten, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to listen again or anew. <BR> <I>Ex. The brook ... seems, as I relisten to it, Prattling the primrose fancies of the boy (Tennyson).</I> </DL>
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<B>relive, </B>verb, <B>-lived,</B> <B>-living.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to live over or through again. <BR> <I>Ex. She relived the scene of their good-bye (Lionel Merrick).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to live again or anew. </DL>
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<B>reload, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to load again. </DL>
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<B>reloader, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a self-loading conveyor to collect and transport coal from a storage yard to railroad cars, vessels, or nearby storage places. </DL>
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<B>reloan, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to loan again. </DL>
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<B>relocatability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fact or condition of being relocatable. <BR> <I>Ex. The mobility and relocatability of the mobile home would appear ... particularly suitable for use in underdeveloped countries and in disaster areas (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>relocatable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be relocated or moved to a new location. <BR> <I>Ex. a relocatable building. Increasingly, cities are turning to the use of relocatable structures to offset the problems imposed by shifting city populations (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>relocate, </B>verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to move to a new location; resettle. <BR> <I>Ex. The tenants of the burned building were forced to relocate. A hospital ... may relocate in the suburban area instead of rebuilding on a downtown site (James A. Hamilton).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to locate again or anew; put in a new location. <BR> <I>Ex. to relocate a family. Programs must be worked out to ease the impact of technological changes by retraining and relocating workers (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>relocation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the action of relocating or state of being relocated. </DL>
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<B>relocator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one that relocates. <DD><B> 2. </B>a device to find the range and direction of a target to aim shore batteries. </DL>
<B>reluct, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to offer resistance or opposition. <BR> <I>Ex. I ... reluct at the inevitable course of destiny (Charles Lamb).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to be reluctant. </DL>
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<B>reluctance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a reluctant feeling or action; unwillingness. <BR> <I>Ex. She took part in the game with reluctance. There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as Advice (Joseph Addison).</I> (SYN) disinclination. <DD><B> 2. </B>slowness in action because of unwillingness. <BR> <I>Ex. Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief (James M. Barrie).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Physics.) the resistance offered to the passage of magnetic lines of force. It is equivalent to the ratio of the magnetomotive force to the magnetic flux. </DL>
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<B>reluctancy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B> =reluctance.</DL>
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<B>reluctant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>showing unwillingness; unwilling. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher led the reluctant boy to the principal. He put the flimsy paper down with a slow, reluctant movement (H. G. Wells).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>slow to act because unwilling. <BR> <I>Ex. I am reluctant to go out in very cold weather. He was very reluctant to give his money away.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) resisting; opposing. adv. <B>reluctantly.</B> </DL>
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<B>reluctate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-tated,</B> <B>-tating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to offer resistance; show reluctance. <BR> <I>Ex. The child is commanded to do the thing that is right. He reluctates. He is punished (Henry Ward Beecher).</I> </DL>
<B>reluctivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the ratio of the intensity of the magnetic field to the magnetic induction of a substance; the reciprocal of permeability. </DL>
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<B>relume, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lumed,</B> <B>-luming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to relight or rekindle. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<B>rely, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-lied,</B> <B>-lying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to depend; trust. <BR> <I>Ex. Rely on your own efforts. I relied upon your promise absolutely. The Assembly, which could not rely on the Armed Forces ... was too weak to defy Algiers (Observer).</I> </DL>
