sectarianize (sektarianiz)

t.; pret. and pp. sectarianized, ppr. sectarianizing. [ IMG:content-0487.png:[blocks in formation] Milton, Eikon ok las tes, xiii. 2. A sect or sectarian party. [Rare.] Towards Quakers who came here they were most cruelly intolerant, driving them from the colony by the severest penalties. In proce of time, however, other sectarisms were introduced, chiefly of the Presbyterian family. Jefferson, Autobiog., p. 31. These sectary precise preachers. L. Bacon, Genesis of New Eng. Churches. sectatort (sek-ta'tor), n. [= F. sectateur; sectator , a follower, sectari , follow eagerly, accompany, freq. of sequi , follow: see sequent .] A follower; a disciple; an adherent of a sect, school, or party. The best learned of the philosophers were not ignorant, as Cicero witne eth for them, gathering the opinion of Aristotle and his sectators with those of Plato and the A cade micks. Raleigh , Hist. World, i. 1. The philosopher busies himself in accommodating all her [Nature's] appearances to the principles of a school of which he has sworn himself the sectator . War burton , Prodigies, p. 92.