sectarianism

[English sectarian; -ism.] The quality or state of being a sectarian; the principles of sectarians; devoted adherence to a particular sect, school, or religious denomination; bigoted or partisan zeal for a particular sect. sec-tär-i-an-ize, v. t. [Eng. sectarian; -ize.] To make sectarian; to imbue with sectarian feelings or principles. sect i uncle (3) A distinct part or portion of a country. people, community, cla , or the like; a cla , a division. "Having alienated one great section of Christen dom by persecuting the Huguenots, he alienated another by insulting the Holy See." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , cin. ix. (4) In that portion of the United States, once general-government land, and surveyed by order of the national authorities, one of the portions of a square of 640 acres, or one square mile each, into which the public lands are divided. Each section is of a township. The sections in each township numbered. Sections sub-divided into half sections, quarter-sections, and even into eighths of a section. In preempting a homestead a settler may claim a quarter-section. 3. A vertical plan of the interior of a building, of a piece of country, of a mine, or of any structure, natural or artificial, showing it as it would appear upon an upright plane cutting through it. In buildings, sections show the thickne es of the walls, ceilings, floors, the heights of rooms and of doors and windows, and the forms of the ceilings, whether flat, coved, or vaulted. Sections are longitudinal, transverse, vertical, horizontal, oblique, central, lateral, ., according to position and direction. II. Technically : 1. Geol .: The representation of an imaginary cutting, generally vertical, through a certain number of beds. Sections are so e ential to a right comprehension of the dip, the strike, and the mutual relations of strata, that they abound in geological books. 2. Mach .: A detachable portion of a machine or instrument when made up of a number of parts. 3. Microscopy: A thin slice of any organic or inorganic substance cut off for microscopic examination. Sections are named according to the direction in which they are taken, as longitudinal, transverse, . They are also described specifically, as anatomical, or mineralogical sections. 4. Mil .: Half a platoon of infantry. 5. Music : A part of a movement, consisting of one or more phrases. 6. Surveying : A view showing the inequalities of the ground in reference to a base-line or line of con struct i on. Conic sections : [CONIC.] section-beam, s. same as SECTARIANISM (q. v.). "Nothing hath more marks of schism and sectarism than this presbyterian way." - King Charles: Eikon Basilike. tsěc-tar-ist, subst. [English sectar (y); -ist.) A sectary, a sectarian. "Milton was certainly of that profe ion or general principle on which all sectarists agree." - Warton : Milton ; sonnets, xiv. (Note.)