scrupulous (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. relĭgiōsus (implying extreme conscientiousness)2. sanctus (unimpeachable, highly upright and conscientious). Join3. dīlĭgens, anxius; sollĭcĭtus • scrupulous (adj.): 1. relĭgiōsus (implying extreme conscientiousness): the s. state ordered the consul to vow games and a present to Jupiter, civitas r. ludos Jovi donumque vovere consulem jussit, Liv. 31, 9, ad fin.: throughout those days also s. husbandmen abstain from agricultural labours, per hos quoque dies abstinent terrenis operibus agricolae r., Col. 11, 2, fin. 2. sanctus (unimpeachable, highly upright and conscientious). Join: in publicis religionibus sanctus et diligens, Cic. Verr. 5, 19, 49: v. upright. 3. dīlĭgens, anxius; sollĭcĭtus: v. anxious, careful. (N.B.--Scrupulosus in this sense late, and best avoided.)
SCRUPULOUS Copy link • SCRUPULOUSanxius: anxius et sollicitus: religiosus: scrupulosus (post-Augustan in this sense; or by the substantive). Over-scrupulous care, *minuta et anxia diligentia