The purpose of this article is to highlight various strategies that are used by two of the most important dictionaries in the context of the English and Roumanian languages, the Oxford English Dictionary and the și Roumanian Explanatory Dictionary (Dicționarul Explicativ Român), to focus religious discourse in the main body of definitions that appear in each dictionary. A theoretical framework on ideology and dictionary will serve as a starting point for the analysis of the strategies presented and which will provide a classification, with practical examples, insisting on the notions of modification and focus. The results obtained will be discussed in relation to the major strategies alluded to, highlighting the fact that the dictionary does not exist in a vacuum, but is always affected by an ideology to some extent. This fact seems to support our hypothesis that religious discourse is one of the domains where a more pronounced presence of focalization can be seen.