Definition of "sectary" []

• A sectarian. (noun)
• A dissenter from an established church, especially a Protestant nonconformist. (noun)

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• "Cordova, excommunicating each other, and agreed only in a principle of discord, that a sectary is more odious and criminal than an unbeliever."
• "Heavy penalties were denounced against all who should presume to save a prescribed sectary from the just indignation of the gods, and of the emperors."
• "Within an hour the Frenchman had cut off his nose and parted with his wings, and retained nothing about him which recalled the sectary of the god Tingou."