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sectionary, a. and n.|ˈsɛkʃənərɪ|
[f. section n. + -ary.]
†A. adj. Obs. rare.
1. Of or pertaining to the sections of a book.
a1734North Life John North (1744) 259 He gives a short Account of each of the Pieces..and of his adding a sectionary Index to the whole.
2. Of or pertaining to a section (of a party, country, etc.).
1816Pickering Vocab. U.S. 171 Sectionary,..I have never met with this uncommon word except in the following instance: ‘This veneration arises not from a little and selfish spirit of sectionary attachment.’ 1835Tait's Mag. II. 288 The absence of these is partly compensated by the exclusion of the sectionary leaders.
B. n. A member of a section (of a party, etc.) opposed to the remainder; a partisan.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 948 To men who..call them trimmers or waverers, deserters or sectionaries, we have only to say, There is a battle to be fought [etc.]. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 257 M. Martin ascended a sort of tribune to address the sectionaries. |