Definition of "superstitious" []

• Inclined to believe in superstition. (adjective)
• Of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition. (adjective)

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• "Societies of Paris, etc. Neurologist to Freedmen's Hospital and Epiphany Dispensary, Lecturer on Nervous and Mental Diseases, Howard University, Washington, D.C. THERE is a general impression that the explanations of natural phenomena, including human destinies, to which the term superstitious is given are usually attributable to the vestiges of traditional cosmogonies of our tribal ancestors handed down to children at the knees of their parents or guardians."
• "Until we can rid ourselves of what I call the superstitious awe of the Bible, we will never understand it rightly."
• "The instructor first disposed of what he called superstitious "heresies" concerning the gas, in order to prevent the men from having panic and"