Crossword clues for sectarian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Syn: See Heretic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, originally applied by Presbyterians to Independents, from Medieval Latin sectarius, from secta (see sect).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to a sect. 2 dogmatic or partisan. 3 parochial or narrow-minded. 4 bigoted. n. 1 A member of a sect. 2 A bigot.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences"
belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology" [ant: nonsectarian]
Usage examples of "sectarian".
The Christians of Maine, facing tasks of evangelization more than sufficient to occupy all their resources even when well economized and squandering nothing on needless divisions and competitions, have attained to the high grace of saying that sectarian interests must and shall be sacrificed when the paramount interests of the kingdom of Christ require it.
Returning to Philadelphia, he took this city as the base of his unselfish and unpartisan labors in behalf of the great and multiplying population from his fatherland, which through its sectarian divisions had become so helpless and spiritually needy.
It seemed as if minute sectarian division and subdivision was to be forced upon American Christianity as a law of its church life.
It was precipitated by an event which has not even yet ceased to be looked on by the losing party with honest lamentation and with an unnecessary amount of sectarian acrimony.
But this multitude was without common organization, and, while abundantly endowed with sectarian animosities, was singularly lacking in a consciousness of common spiritual life.
Of course the establishment of these and other societies for beneficent work outside of sectarian lines did not hinder, but rather stimulated, sectarian organizations for the like objects.
By the building of churches and other edifices for sectarian uses, schism was established for coming time as a vested interest.
And yet the principle of sectarian competition is both recognized and utilized in the Roman system.
Christian fellowship as against the prevailing folly of sectarian divisions, emulations, and jealousies.
The studious efforts that have been made to cultivate among them a sectarian spirit, as if this were one of the Christian virtues, have not been fruitless.
If we confine ourselves to those sermons that have survived their generation or won attention beyond the limits of local interest or of sectarian fellowship, the list will not be unmanageably long.
Withal, its influence has tended to narrow the discussion to the consideration of a single provincial and sectarian tradition, as if the usage of a part of the Christians of the southern end of one of the islands of the British archipelago had a sort of binding authority over the whole western continent.
And, indeed, the situation was anomalous, in which the sectarian divisions of the Christian people were represented in the churches, and their catholic unity in charitable societies.
It would have seemed more Pauline, not to say more Christian, to have had voluntary societies for the sectarian work, and kept the churches for Christian communion.
Christian people with sectarian division continued to demand expression.