Religious Definition–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday. |
| 2. | imbued with or exhibiting religion; pious; devout; godly: a religious man. |
| 3. | scrupulously faithful; conscientious: religious care. |
| 4. | pertaining to or connected with a monastic or religious order. |
| 5. | appropriate to religion or to sacred rites or observances. |
–noun | 6. | a member of a religious order, congregation, etc.; a monk, friar, or nun. |
| 7. | the religious, devout or religious persons: Each year, thousands of the religious make pilgrimages to the shrine. |
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Art Definition–noun | 1. | the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. |
| 2. | the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection. |
| 3. | a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art. |
| 4. | the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture. |
| 5. | any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art. |
| 6. | (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story? |
| 7. | the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling. |
| 8. | the craft or trade using these principles or methods. |
| 9. | skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation. |
| 10. | a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature. |
| 11. | arts, | a. | (used with a singular verb ) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences. |
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| 12. | skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature. |
| 13. | trickery; cunning: glib and devious art. |
| 14. | studied action; artificiality in behavior. |
| 15. | an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics. |
| 16. | Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship. |
From DictionaryRelated topics from BritannicaMozarabic art
architecture and other visual arts of the Mozarabs, Christians who lived in the Iberian Peninsula after the Arab invasion of 711. The conquered Christians were tolerated, although called musta'rib ...
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Flemish art
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