A follower, disciple; one who follows a particular school, teacher, or leader; a partisan, sectary.

A member of a sect; one who is zealous in the cause of a sect.

= sectary, n.

= sectary, n.

One who favours disjunction; a separatist.

One who or something which separates; spec. †one who separates from the Church, a separatist (common in the 17th cent.); a critic who ascribes…

A sectarian, fanatic.

in the same sense.

One who advocates ecclesiastical separation; one who belongs to a religious community separated from the… A member of any of the sects separated…

One who follows a particular sect, a sectary.

One who withdraws from the Church; a separatist.

A person who holds an opinion or doctrine against the generally accepted view; a dissenter. Now historical.

= separatist, n.

Church History. (With capital S.) As the designation assumed by a class of sectaries in the 16–17th centuries: see quot. 1645.

= sectary, n. 1.

A bigoted adherent of a sect; one whose views or sympathies are sectarian.

A member of an abolitionist dissenting religious sect. Hence: a reformer; a dissident; a person who withdraws from an organization, institution…

an adherent or advocate of these.

one who leaves a church in order to form a new congregation.