sectaryn.adj.

1558 P. Morwen tr. A. ben David ibn Daud Hist. Latter Tymes Iewes Commune Weale f. xxv^v One Dogrus..whom they slewe, & muche people besides of the auncients of that sect, so that the Sectaries were in great distresse.

1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery i. v. vi. 144 Thomists, and Jesuites, to be the selfe same sectaries.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 263 The fundamental principles of Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary adheres to his own exclusive doctrine.

1780 W. Cowper Nightingale & Glow-worm 27 Hence jarring sectaries may learn Their real interest to discern.

a1832 J. Bentham Infl. Time & Place in Legisl. in Wks. (1843) I. 173 The sectary of every religion..is exposed to the dread of invisible agents.

1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 147 It is not as religious sectaries they [school inspectors] have to discharge their duties, but as civil servants.

1869 A. Harwood tr. E. de Pressensé Early Years Christianity iii. ii. 378 John..exhibited sometimes the narrow spirit of the sectary.

1883 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 199 Many a bitter sectary, thirsting for the discomfiture of his opponents, was tripped up by it.

1556 J. Clement in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. lxi. 214 All other Heretikes and Sectaries.

1569 Bp. J. Parkhurst Injunct. A iv b Whether you know of any sectaries that vse to make any priuate conuenticles in priuate mens houses.

1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles B j b They pronounce vs newe sectories.

1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. (end) Now I am discontented, Ile turne Sectarie, that is fashion.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. vii. Annot. 171 Zuinglius, Caluin, Beza, and other Sectaries.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 104 Gard. My Lord, my Lord, you are a Sectary . View more context for this quotation

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sectary, one that follows private opinions in Religion, a Ring-leader of a Sect, a seditious, factious person.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade x. 187 Their giving Liberty..to all Religions, as well Jews and Roman-Catholicks, or Sectaries, gives security to all their Inhabitants.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 2 Sectaries have no ostensible enjoyments... The arts that civilize society are not calculated for men who mean to rise on the ruins of established order.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 2 The omission of his name in the register of St. Dunstan's parish, gives reason to suspect that his father was a sectary.

1808 Syd. Smith Methodism in Wks. (1859) I. 88/1 Mr. Ingram..has talked a great deal about dissenters,..we shall endeavour..to present him [the reader] with a near view of those sectaries, who are at present at work upon the destruction of the orthodox churches.

1812 G. Crabbe Tales xiv. 256 Now, as a Sectary, who had all his life, As he suppos'd, been with the Church at strife.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 30/2 [James I] Sectary! Those who dissent from the domineering party have always been thus stigmatized.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. ii. 27 Many sectaries experienced much inhuman treatment.

1864 J. Payn Lost Sir Massingberd i They had been poachers, or radicals, or sectaries (as Dissenters were then called).

1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred ix. 76 The English sectaries warned the General Assembly to begone from Edinburgh.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 757/2 A large boarding-house for sectaries, called a College, has sprung up somewhere behind Holywell.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B4 It were enough to entitle those Browne sectaries of the Blacke Prince, with the name of traytors.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 833 He would scoffe at learning, and eke scorne The Sectaries thereof, as people base And simple men.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 144 Times alter: and as Fortune hath more sectaries, then Vertue; so Pleasure hath more adherents, then Proffit.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 145 How long haue you beene a sectary Astronomicall? View more context for this quotation

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 109 Aristotle..sending Calisthenes, a sectarie [margin. or disciple] and kinsman of his, unto K. Alexander, gave him [etc.].

1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 108 M^r. Hobbs or any of his Sectaries.

1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 146 Which Mahomet so strongly infused into his Sectaries.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 79/1 Not votaries of Brahma, but sectaries of Buddha.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iv. xv. 269 The sectaries of an obsolete covenant.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Summary §11 The two grand Sectaries in Physick, and their clashing described.

1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 299 One of the fruits of this blessed Parlement, and of these two Sectaries is, that they have made more Jewes and Atheists then I think there is in all Europe besides.

1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (1765) 431 What they called a sectary sprang up in the Massachusets colony.

1590 H. Barrow in H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. iii. 51 The Apostle..speaketh of..sectorie Teachers & people following them.

1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 48 A few poor Sectary Caluinists hated & contemned by all other sectes of the same breed.

1638 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 3 A kinde of Sectary passion.

1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana 4 They..sent them by their Agitators and sectary Priests into all Counties.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xxv. 725 Sectary-meta-physicians..will, we fear be disappointed in our chapters on Memory—Imagination and Judgment. They will not find us the partizans of any system.