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Definition: SECTARY |
SECTARYNoun1. A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter. |
Date "SECTARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Etymology: Sectary \Sec"ta*ry\, noun; plural Sectaries. [French expression sectaire. See Sect.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissent | Dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist; sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic. |
Heterodoxy | Schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SECTARY |
| English words defined with "SECTARY": Sandemanian, Sectaries, Sectarist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SECTARY": Sectarist. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sectary | 5 |
michigan sectary state | 5 |
sectary state | 3 |
illinois sectary state | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SECTARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sektar (dissenter, sectarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сектант (dissenter, nonconformist, revivalist, sectarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sektář (sectarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχισματικόσ (dissenter, schismatic, secessionist, sectarian, separatist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szektariánus (sectarian), szektárius (sectarian), szakadár (dissident, nonconformist, schismatic, schismatical, seceder, separatist), vallásos szekta híve, eretnek (heretic, heretical, sectarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ectarysay sectário (denominational, follower, sectarian), não-conformista (nonconformist, recusant), dissidente (dissentient, dissimilar, Mavis, nonconformity), cismático (schismatic, schismatical, separatist). (various references) adept (adherent, advocate, backer, champion, dependant, dependent, devotee, disciple, follower, hanger-on, initiate, partisan, proselyte, supporter, sympathizer, upholder, votarist, votary, zealot). (various references) сектант (dissenter, nonconformist, sectarian). (various references) sektaš (sectarian). (various references) sectario (denominational, sectarian), cismático (schismatic, schismatical). (various references) сектант (dissident, maverick, nonconformist, sectarian), послідовник (acolyte, adherent, disciple, follower, pupil, son), дисидент (maverick, nonconformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SECTARY": insectary. (additional references) | |
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"SECTARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nectary, secatary, secay, secetary, secta, Secteur, sectra, secutiry, Semchard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SECTARY" (pronounced 'Sec"ta*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, creasy, estray, reacts, recast, scarey, stayer, traces, yarest. | |
-2 letters: acres, artsy, aster, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cesta, crate, crest, escar, eyras, races, rates, react, recta, resay, satyr, sayer, scare, scart, scary, serac, stare, stray, taces, tares, tears, teary, trace, trays, treys, tyers, tyres. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: actressy, ancestry, cytaster, yachters. | |
+2 letters: acrylates, astrocyte, calypters, cytasters, insectary, secretary, trachytes. | |
+3 letters: archetypes, astrocytes, asymmetric, athrocytes, caryatides, catalyzers, clearstory, corybantes, crystalize, escalatory, eucaryotes, excusatory, hysterical, macrocytes, secularity, spectrally, sterically, transiency. | |
+4 letters: ancestrally, antisecrecy, astringency, countryseat, crystalized, crystalizes, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, eristically, flycatchers, gastrectomy, hyperstatic, macrophytes, predynastic, presynaptic, procaryotes, respectably, specularity, subcategory, subliteracy, symmetrical, tracklayers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 43 54 41 52 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. - .- .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01000011 01010100 01000001 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E C T A R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0043 0054 0041 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53393754355259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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