sectarian Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a member of a sect
sectarist; sectary.
- most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects
- sectarian differences
adjective belonging to or characteristic of a sect
- a sectarian mind
- the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook
- sectarian squabbles in psychology

Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.

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. Syn. -- See Heretic.