OF THE WORD
"RELIGION," AND OTHER WORDS OF UNCERTAIN SIGNIFICATION
The word religion is a word of forced application when
used with respect to the worship of God. The root of the word is the Latin verb
ligo, comes religo, to tie or bind over again, to make more fast
- from religo, comes the substantive religo, which, with the
addition of n makes the English substantive religion.
The French use the word properly: when a woman enters a convent
she is called a novitiate, that is, she is tied or bound by that oath to
the performance...
