religio (in its widest sense; reverence for everything sacred, and any manifestation of this feeling): pietas erga Deum (the fear of God): res divinae (things divine or sacred, general term): religiones (the course of religious observances): caerimonia, caerimoniae (sacred rites): sacra, plur., (religious worship): lex (the law or doctrine of a religion; as lex Christiana, the Christian religion). A man of no religion, homo impius erga Deum; religionis contemtor; religionum omnium contemtor; religionum negligens: not to be without a sense of religion, haud intacti religione animi esse: the religion of a country, cultus deorum ab omnibus fere civibus susceptus (after Cic., De Legg., 1, 23, 60): sacra publica, -orum, neuter (general term, the public service of God; opposed to sacra privata): formula, doctrina, ratio rerum divinarum or sacrorum (a system of religion or religious doctrine; e.g., the Romish religion, sacra Pontiricia, plur.): to adopt a religion, sacra (e.g., Romana) suscipere: to embrace the Christian religion, *sacra Christianorum suscipere: to renounce one’s religion, *patria sacra deserere: a change of religion, *sacra commutata; *sacrorum professio mutata.