| a. | 1. | Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; |
| n. | 1. | 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. |
| Noun | 1. | sectarian - a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect" |
| Adj. | 1. | sectarian - of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences" |
| 2. | sectarian - belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology" Antonyms: nonsectarian, unsectarian - not restricted to one sect or school or party; "religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere"; "nonsectarian colleges"; "a wide and unsectarian interest in religion"- Bertrand Russell |
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