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SUPERSTI'TION, n. L. superstitio, supersto super and sto, to stand.

1. Excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance excess or extravagance in religion the doing of things not required by God, or abstaining from things not forbidden or the belief of what is absurd, or belief without evidence.

Superstition has reference to god, to religion, or to beings superior to man.

2. False religion false worship.
3. Rite or practice proceeding from excess of scruples in religion. In this sense, it admits of a plural.

They the truth

With superstitions and traditions taint.

4. Excessive nicety scrupulous exactness.
5. Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in omens and prognostics.
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Entry for 'Superstition'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/superstition.html.
 
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