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sectary

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sec·ta·ry  (skt-r)
n. pl. sec·ta·ries
1. A sectarian.
2. A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist.
[Medieval Latin sectrius, from Latin secta, sect; see sect.]
sectary [ˈsɛktərɪ]
n pl -taries
1. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) a member of a sect, esp a person who belongs to a religious sect that is regarded as heretical or schismatic
2. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) a person excessively devoted to a particular sect
3. (Christian Churches, other) a member of a Nonconformist denomination, esp one that is small
[from Medieval Latin sectārius, from Latin secta sect]
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Noun1.sectary - a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect"
sectarian, sectarist
bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own


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Within an hour the Frenchman had cut off his nose and parted with his wings, and retained nothing about him which recalled the sectary of the god Tingou.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines, but meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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