sectary
/ˈsɛktəri
/noun (plural sectaries)
A member of a religious or political sect.Steve Bainbridge's post, discussed below, cites Russell Kirk's famous insult of libertarians as ‘chirping sectaries.’...
- It was, for Tories, unthinkable to have a national church with sectaries outside.
- A comprehensive national Church embracing all but a small number of sectaries and papists would have been a very different matter from a restricted religious establishment, co-existing with large numbers of nonconformists.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from modern Latin sectarius 'schismatic', from medieval Latin sectarius 'adherent', from Latin secta (see sect).
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