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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a member of a sect;
- Example: "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect"
[syn: sectarian, sectary, sectarist]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects;
- Example: "sectarian differences"

2. belonging to or characteristic of a sect;
- Example: "a sectarian mind"
- Example: "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook
- Example: "sectarian squabbles in psychology"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sectarian \Sec*ta"ri*an\, a. Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sectarian \Sec*ta"ri*an\, n. One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state. [1913 Webster] Syn: See Heretic. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sectarian adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences" 2: belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology" [ant: nonsectarian, unsectarian] n 1: a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect" [syn: sectarian, sectary, sectarist]