noun
definition
A member of a sect.
definition
A bigot.
Examples of sectarians in a Sentence
The period between the rise of the Abbasids and the quasi-independent dynasties of Egypt was marked by much religious persecution, occasioned by the fanaticism of some of the caliphs, the victims being generally Moslem sectarians.
The doctrines and practices of these sects clearly verge upon those obtaining in the third principal division of Indian sectarians which will now be considered.
To what extent the accusations of profligate morals brought against these reforming sectarians were justified remains doubtful; and the same uncertainty rests upon the alleged iniquities of the Templars.
Murat himself had at first protected the sectarians, especially when he was quarrelling with Napoleon, but later, Lord William Bentinck entered into negotiations with them from Sicily, where he represented Great Britain, through their leader Vincenzo Federici (known as Capobianco), holding out promises of a constitution for Naples similar to that which had been established in Sicily under British auspices in 1812.
How would you characterize the 68 who weren't Brit left sectarians?
From then on it is clear that he regarded them as hopeless sectarians.
From all sides opportunists, religious sectarians and racists have jumped in to exploit the situation.
But while the sectarians were in a vast majority in the army, the parliament was equally strong in Presbyterianism and opposed to toleration.
How would you characterize the 68 who were n't Brit left sectarians?
But, if this legitimacy is so powerful and worth recording, it puzzles me that Christian sectarians have not used them.
It has a population of about 25,000 and post and telegraph offices, and was one of the original strongholds of the BabI sectarians, who held it against a large Persian force from May 1850 to the end of the year, when most of them were massacred.