verb. To make religious. To develop the appearance or real qualities of a believer in some religion. To get religion.
How do you make an irresponsible, ex-cokehead, failure of a businessman, who raised two stupid ho daughters, was a slacker in school, and never earned anything on his own virtue President of the United States? Religify him.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)