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sectionaries

sectionaries is the plural of sectionary.

Meaning of sectionary

Noun

sectionary (plural sectionaries)

  1. (historical) A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
    • The Sectionary must differ with him — he must refuse to go along with him, else he becomes a Ministerial man — he is no longer a Sectionary — he loses his separate existence — he is absorbed in the Treasury body.1835, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal
  2. (historical) A member or supporter of the sectionary party.
    • The sectionaries replied by a very brisk fire of musketry; but Bonaparte, covering them with grape-shot, obliged them to fall back upon the steps of St. Roch; then, debouching in the Rue St. Honore', he directed upon the church itself a band of patriots who were fighting at his side with the...1838, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers, The history of the French revolution, translated. with notes by F. Shoberl, page 283

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Questions about sectionaries

What is sectionaries the plural of?
Sectionaries is the plural of sectionary.

Words near sectionaries in the dictionary

  1. sectionalized
  2. sectionalizes
  3. sectionalizing
  4. sectionally
  5. sectionals
  6. sectionaries
  7. sectionary
  8. sectionectomies
  9. sectionectomy
  10. sectioned
  11. sectiones

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