sectary

[ sek-tuh-ree ]

/ ˈsɛk tə ri /

a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.

a Protestant of nonconformist denomination, especially a minor one.

a person zealously devoted to a particular sect.

Origin of sectary

1550–60; < Medieval Latin sectārius, equivalent to sect(a) sect + -ārius -ary

In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though not a sectary of that denomination.

The Pioneers |James Fenimore Cooper
Persecution has the same effect in politics, that it has in religion; it confirms the sectary.

Novanglus, and Massachusettensis |John Adams
M. Combes is a sectary, a renegade seminarist given over to Freemasonry.

The War Upon Religion |Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
He is the like sectary in arms, as the Platonic is in love, keeps a fluttering in discourse, but proves a haggard in the action.

Character Writings of the 17th Century |Various

Thus it will be seen that Wanless, though in his way a profoundly religious man, was in no sense a sectary.

The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant |Alexander Johnstone Wilson

sectary

/ (ˈsɛktərɪ) /

a member of a sect, esp a person who belongs to a religious sect that is regarded as heretical or schismatic

a person excessively devoted to a particular sect

a member of a Nonconformist denomination, esp one that is small

C16: from Medieval Latin sectārius, from Latin secta sect