sectary means A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sectary ranks #2,614 of 42,762 for Qualifying.
Etymology
Either from the French sectaire or directly from its etymon, the Medieval Latin sectārius, from secta (“sect”). Cognates include the Italian settario and the Portuguese and Spanish sectario.
noun
- A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.e.g.“Be it as it may: within the Land of Penn / The sectary yielded to the citizen, / And peaceful dwelt the many-creeded men.” — 1872, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →
- A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.
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