| 释义 |
sectiuncle, sectiuncule rare.
[ad. L. type *sectiuncula, dim. of sectiōn-em section n.]
1. A small section.
1838Gladstone Let. in G. W. E. Russell Life (1891) 55, I have divided it all through into sectiuncules, occupying generally from half a page to a whole one.
2. A small, insignificant religious body.
1851J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 384 The crowd streaming from the conventicle of some new sect or sectiuncle. |