Note 2 — Letters from Juan Cerezo de Salamanca to Felipe IV

Spanish, Religion. This word was first used in the sense of “monastic order” or “monastery” in the sixth century, in France. This narrower sense was used along with the broader one, until the latter was gradually crowded out (during the second half of the fourteenth century); being, however, finally recovered during the epoch of the Reformation; The term “man of religion” (homo religionis, homme de religion) was never used in Latin, French, or English to mean a pious man, but exclusively for a man belonging to a religious order. See “History of the word religio in the Middle Ages,” by. Professor Ewald Flügel, of Leland Stanford Junior University—an abstract of which is printed in Transactions of American Philological Association, 1902, pp. ci, cii.