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sectator Now rare.|sɛkˈteɪtə(r)|
Also 6–7 sectatour.
[a. L. sectātor, agent-n. f. sectārī, freq. of sequī to follow: see sect n.1 Cf. F. sectateur.]
1. A follower, disciple; one who follows a particular school, teacher, or leader; a partisan, sectary.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D ij b, The sectatours of Thessalus, that is to wyt they that obserue his preceptes. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. xxiii. (1569) I. 43 b, It was tolde to the Philosopher Phauorinus, that the wyfe of one of his Sectators and Scholers, was [etc.]. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xxii. 112 [He] doth forbid al his sectators Mahometistes to drinke wine. 1614Raleigh Hist. World 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[Abbott] Visibility of True Ch. 60 And therefore..as sectators of Wiclife, they were condemned in the Councell of Constance. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxxviii. 344 The latter sectatours, or rather pretenders of Aristotle. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. i. vi. 22 Such markes as clearly shewed him..to have been a Sectator of these great Masters of Antiquity. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 53 Not to be remedied by any Panacea of their Esculapian Sectators. 1741Warburton Div. Leg. (1846) III. 250 The origin and progress of the folly and the various views of its Sectators in supporting it, are here accounted for and explained. 1804Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. IV. 286 The sectators of each of them..increased this sentiment [of personal enmity]..by their virulent and exaggerated reports. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 175 Orpheus, Pythagoras, and their sectators,..unceasingly recommended in their discourses to abstain from eggs. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 264 They themselves are fanatic sectators of the old Koran reading.
2. Law. One who is bound to ‘suit of court’. Now only Hist. (Perh. merely Law Latin.)
1860Innes Scot. in Mid. 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.
Hence † secˈtatorship. rare—1.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 213 If a joint and unanimous course were taken to have their noblemen free from baseness, their churchmen from avarice.., their meaner sort from implicit sectatorship. |