sectarianizev.
/sɛkˈtɛːrɪənʌɪz/, U.S. /sɛkˈtɛriəˌnaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To act in a sectarian manner.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [verb (intransitive)]
separate1595
sectarianize1842
1842 J. Foster Let. 22 Dec. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 451 We dissenters..having no high prelatical authorities over us, may sectarianize and fight as much as we please.
1874 Contemp. Rev. 23 185 They sectarianize, in short, just as naturally as Churches.
2. transitive. To render sectarian, to reduce to the level of a sect; to imbue with sectarian feelings or principles.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [verb (transitive)] > make
sectarianize1846
denominationalize1869
sectionalize1899
1846–9 S. R. Maitland tr. Luther in Ess. 279 Human nature when it is sectarianized.
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 643 To revise under present circumstances, is to sectarianise, to divide the one catholic, English Bible,..into a dozen different revelations.
1866 Church Times 24 Mar. Those who strive to sectarianize the Church.
1883 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 18 83 Sectarianizing the schools.
Derivatives
secˈtarianizing n. and adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > making
sectarianizing1908
society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [adjective] > making
sectarianizing1908
1908 Athenæum 30 May 666/1 The ‘sectarianizing’ of the Church, and of any and every form of Christianity.
1909 Evening Post (N.Y.) 7 Aug. 6 To strive to catholicise his own communion, that it might become a reconciling power, instead of a sectarianising system of human device.
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