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n. - A member of a separate group adhering to a distinctive doctrine or way of thinking or to a particular leader

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  • Cordova, excommunicating each other, and agreed only in a principle of discord, that a sectary is more odious and criminal than an unbeliever.
  • What was it the Army called the last defense sectary.
  • Therefore, said a certain sectary of R. Chaninah, Ye lie, ye lie.
  • The reformed sectary makes too many, and tends to dissolve and die.
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