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sectarianize, v.|sɛkˈtɛərɪənaɪz|
[Formed as prec. + -ize.]
1. intr. To act in a sectarian manner.
1842Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 451 We dissenters..having no prelatical authorities over us, may sectarianize and fight as much as we please. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIII. 185 They sectarianize, in short, just as naturally as Churches.
2. trans. To render sectarian, to reduce to the level of a sect; to imbue with sectarian feelings or principles.
1846–9S. R. Maitland Ess., etc. 279 [tr. Luther.] Human nature when it is sectarianized. 1860G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 643 To revise under present circumstances, is to sectarianise, to divide the one catholic, English Bible,..into a dozen different revelations. 1866Ch. Times 24 Mar., Those who strive to sectarianize the Church. 1883Jrnl. Educ. XVIII. 83 Sectarianizing the schools.
Hence secˈtarianizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1908Athenæum 30 May 666/1 The ‘sectarianizing’ of the Church, and of any and every form of Christianity. 1909Even. Post (N.Y.) 7 Aug. 6 To strive to catholicise his own communion, that it might become a reconciling power, instead of a sectarianising system of human device. |