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sectary, n. and a.|ˈsɛktərɪ|
Also 6 sectorie, 6–7 sectarie. Cf. sectuary.
[ad. F. sectaire, or its source med.L. sectārius (Diefenbach), f. secta sect n.1 Cf. Sp., Pg. sectario, It. settario.]
A. n.
1. A member of a sect; one who is zealous in the cause of a sect.
1558Morwyng tr. Joseph Ben Gorion's Hist. Jews (1561) 23 One Dogrus..whom they slewe, & muche people besides of the auncientes of that sect, so that the Sectaries were in great distresse. 1596Bell Surv. Popery i. v. vi. 144 Thomists, and Jesuites, to be the selfe same sectaries. 1771Lett. Junius lix. (1788) 314 The fundamental principles of Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary adheres to his own exclusive doctrine. 1780Cowper Nightingale & Glowworm 27 Hence jarring sectaries may learn Their real interest to discern. a1832Bentham Infl. Time & Place in Legisl. Wks. 1843 I. 173 The sectary of every religion..is exposed to the dread of invisible agents. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 147 It is not as religious sectaries they [school inspectors] have to discharge their duties, but as civil servants. 1869A. Harwood tr. E. de Pressensé's Early Yrs. Chr. iii. ii. 378 John..exhibited sometimes the narrow spirit of the sectary. 1883Fortn. Rev. Feb. 199 Many a bitter sectary, thirsting for the discomfiture of his opponents, was tripped up by it.
2. An adherent of a schismatical or heretical sect. In the 17–18th c. commonly applied to the English Protestant Dissenters. Now chiefly Hist.
1556J. Clement in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. lxi. 214 All other Heretikes and Sectaries. 1569Bp. Parkhurst Injunct. A iv b, Whether you know of any sectaries that vse to make any priuate conuenticles in priuate mens houses. 1590J. Greenwood Collect. Art. B j b, They pronounce vs newe sectories. 1605Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. (end), Now I am discontented, Ile turne Sectarie, that is fashion. 1609Bible (Douay) Exod. vii. Annot. 171 Zuinglius, Caluin, Beza, and other Sectaries. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. iii. 70 Gard. My Lord, my Lord, you are a Sectary. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sectary, one that follows private opinions in Religion, a Ring-leader of a Sect, a seditious, factious person. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1698) 213 Their giving liberty..to all Religions, as well Jews and Roman Catholicks, as Sectaries, gives security to all their Inhabitants. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 2 Sectaries have no ostensible enjoyments... The arts that civilize society are not calculated for men who mean to rise on the ruins of established order. 1779Johnson L.P., Cowley 5 The omission of his name in the register of St. Dunstan's parish, gives reason to suspect that his Father was a sectary. 1808Syd. Smith Methodism Wks. 1859 I. 88/1 Mr. Ingram..has talked a great deal about dissenters,..we shall endeavour..to present him [the reader] with a near view of those sectaries, who are at present at work upon the destruction of the orthodox churches. 1812Crabbe Tales xiv. 264 Now, as a sectary, he had all his life As he supposed, been with the Church at strife. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Jas. I & Casaubon Wks. 1846 I. 30 Sectary! Those who dissent from the domineering party have always been thus stigmatized. 1860Motley Netherl. ii. (1868) I. 27 Many sectaries experienced much inhuman treatment. 1864J. Payn Sir Massingberd i, They had been poachers, or radicals, or sectaries (as Dissenters were then called). 1876J. Grant One of the Six Hundred ix. 76 The English sectaries warned the General Assembly to begone from Edinburgh. 1903Blackw. Mag. Dec. 757/2 A large boarding-house for sectaries, called a College, has sprung up somewhere behind Holywell.
3. A follower or disciple of a particular leader, teacher, party, or school. Now rare (with mixture of sense 1). † Also, a votary of a particular study, pursuit, etc.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 7 It were enough to entitle those Browne sectaries of the Blacke Prince, with the name of traytors. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 833 He would scoffe at learning, and eke scorne The Sectaries thereof, as people base And simple men. 1593G. Harvey Pierces Super. 144 Times alter: and as Fortune hath more sectaries, then Vertue; so Pleasure hath more adherents, then Proffit. 1605Shakes. Lear i. ii. 164 (Qos.) How long haue you beene a sectary Astronomicall? 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 109 Aristotle..sending Calisthenes, a sectarie [marg. or disciple] and kinsman of his, unto K. Alexander, gave him [etc.]. 1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 108 Mr. Hobbs or any of his Sectaries. 1704N. N. tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. III. 146 Which Mahomet so strongly infused into his Sectaries. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts 79/1 Not votaries of Brahma, but sectaries of Buddha. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 269 The Sectaries of an obsolete covenant.
†4. A sect. Obs. rare.
1643Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 299 One of the fruits of this blessed Parlement, and of these two Sectaries is, that they have made more Jewes and Atheists then I think there is in all Europe besides. 1651Biggs New Disp Summary §11 The two grand Sectaries in Physick, and their clashing described. 1764T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. iv. (1765) 431 What they called a sectary sprang up in the Massachusets colony.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to a sect; sectarian.
1590H. Barrow in Conferences iii. 51 The Apostle..speaketh of..sectorie Teachers & people following them. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 48 A few poor Sectary Caluinists hated & contemned by all other sectes of the same breed. 1638Ld. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 3 A kind of Sectary passion. 1649Heylin Relat. & Observ. ii. 4 They..sent them by their Agitators and sectary Priests into all Counties. 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1811) II. 427 Sectary-meta-physicians..will, we fear be disappointed in our chapters on Memory—Imagination and Judgment. They will not find us the partizans of any system. |