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Meanings of sectary in English

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A member of a sect.

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        1
        He was a Puritan, with all the faults and virtues of a sectary.
        Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
        2
        In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though not a sectary of that denomination.
        The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
        3
        Sylvanus also plays the part of a religious sectary.
        From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
        4
        Is the tone of this book, the tone of the enthusiast or the ambitious sectary?
        Emile
        5
        He appears on the stage as a sectary, and plays his part with resolute energy.
        From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
        6
        She had not yet learned that therein she just was a sectary-fromChrist the head.
        Weighed and Wanting
        7
        The sectary's rough, gray face reddened until it was nearly the color of his hair.
        Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
        8
        Others could play the politician or the sectary or the trader, but nobody could play Sylvanus.
        From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
        9
        In a few, brief English sentences I retold to the sectary this opinion expressed by Madame.
        Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
        10
        Nevertheless I felt it incumbent to speak somewhat harshly to the yet sulking sectary for such untimely uproar.
        Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
        11
        Still I knew I should be myself a sectary if I therefore excluded her from my best sympathies.
        The Vicar's Daughter
        12
        A priest at St Mary Woolchurch says Cromwell is a sectary and he is not frightened of him: fool.
        Wolf hall
        13
        I turned to face the grim-faced sectary, still too thoroughly winded by his late exertions to try the lift of a Psalm.
        Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
        14
        M. A--is a sectary of the goddess Reason, of whom he has made a Moloch, an oppressive deity hungry for sacrifice.
        The Psychology of Revolution
        15
        We learn from Asamy, that, in 1625, a sectary of Aly was impaled alive at Mekka, because he would not abjure his creed.
        Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories...
        16
        No fault lay in him unless it may be imputed for unrighteousness that he was a stanch, trenchant sectary in his place and generation.
        The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
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        Sectary through the time