sectary
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The latter was commissioned by the home sectary and Sir Ken.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
An ex-senior adviser recalled being sent a document about a reform agenda and a permanent sectary ordering them to "just bin it immediately".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
In both, the imperial and official worship was political and indifferent to dogma without being hostile, provided no sectary refused to call the Emperor Son of Heaven or sacrifice to his image.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
He was a Puritan, with all the faults and virtues of a sectary.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
His other works—Scenes of light comedy in them—Portraits of the upstart, of the sectary, &c.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Salon called and emailed the offices of sectaries Kerry and Carter, as well as the Departments of State and Defense, multiple times with requests for comment.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2016
Her father gets his graceful due: To truth a shield, to right a wall, To sectaries a whip and maul.
From Time Magazine Archive
These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, Waldenses were numerous, together with sectaries known as Ortlibenses or Ordibarii.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
The Moorish inhabitants, strengthening their forces with the aid of Christians and Jews, invited Ibrahim Ibn Humushk to lead them to the expulsion of the new sectaries.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
