RELIGION

noun

1. Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
2. A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
3. The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

verb

1. Engage in religious practice.
2. Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
3. To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.