sectatorn.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The sectatours of Thessalus, that is to wyt they that obserue his preceptes.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxiii. f. 45^v It was tolde to the Philosopher Phauorinus, that the wife of one of his Sectators and scholers, was [etc.].

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxii. 112 [He] doth forbid al his sectators Mahometistes to drinke wine.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §1. 33 Those writers which gaue themselues to follow and imitate others, were in all things so obseruant sectatours of those Masters,..as [etc.].

1624 Abp. G. Abbot Treat. Perpetuall Visibilitie True Church 60 And therefore..as sectators of Wiclife, they were condemned in the Councell of Constance.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. Concl. 344 The latter sectatours, or rather pretenders of Aristotle.

1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. i. vi. 22 Such markes as clearly shew'd him..to have been a Sectator of these great Masters of Antiquity.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 53 Not to be remedied by any Panacea of their Esculapian Sectators.

1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) V. vi. vi. 379 The origin, and progress of the folly, and the various views of its sectators in supporting it, are here accounted for and explained.

1804 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. IV. 286 The sectators of each of them..increased this sentiment [of personal enmity]..by their virulent and exaggerated reports.

1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 175 Orpheus, Pythagoras, and their sectators,..unceasingly recommended in their discourses to abstain from eggs.

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 264 They themselves are fanatic sectators of the old Koran reading.

1860 C. Innes Scotl. in Middle Ages vii. 207 In the court, so composed of all the vassals of a baron—the suitors or sectators of a barony—were discussed the affairs of the barony.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 63 If a joint and unanimous course were taken to have their noblemen free from baseness, their Church-men from avarice.., their meaner sort from implicit Sectatorship.