sectary
[noun]
Synonyms: heretic, dissenter, dissident, misbeliever, nonconformist, schismatic, schismatist, separatist, follower, adherent, cohort, disciple, henchman, partisan, satellite, sectator, supporter

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Contrasted words: advocate, conformist, follower
Related Words: beatnik, Bohemian, hippie, maverick, liberal, radical, Young Turk, rebel, revolutionary, bigot

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sectary noun & adjective. ['sɛktǝri] M16.
[French sectaire, or mod. Latin use in sense 'schismatic' of medieval Latin sectarius adherent, partisan from Latin secta: see SECT noun¹, -ARY¹.]
A. noun.
1. A member of a sect; a person who is zealous in the cause of a sect. M16.

2. An adherent of a schismatical or heretical sect. Now chiefly Hist. M16.

3. A follower or disciple of a particular leader, school, teacher, etc. Now rare or obsolete exc. as passing into sense 1. L16.
■ G. Harvey Fortune hath more sectaries, then Vertue.

4. A sect. rare. M17-M18.
B. adjective. Of or pertaining to a sect; sectarian. L16-L18.

■ sectarism noun (now rare) (a) sectarianism; (b) a sectarian group or body: M17.

■ sectarist noun = SECTARY noun 1 E17-M19.

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