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Definition of sectarian : 1. 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.
2. 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.

Synonyms:

bigoted, religion, prejudiced, schismatic, separatist, sectarist, dogmatic, dissenter, nonconformist, separationist, partisan, denominational, dissident, limited, parochial, narrow-minded

competitor, opponent, opposition, archenemy, foe, unfriendly, sanguinary, assailant, antagonist, opposite, shrew, attacker, devil, adversary, combatant, savage, rival, sectary, invader, enemy

fanatic, sermonizer, Bible-thumper, fundamentalist, iconoclast, evangelist, zealot, faith healer, salvationist, missionary, Puritan, crusader

fetishistic, pantheistic, barbarous, heterodox, heretic, nonreligious, factional, Bohemian, nonorthodox, animalistic, non-Christian, iconoclastic, non-believing, atheistic, unscriptural, unchristian, nonconforming, unorthodox, idolatrous, dissenting, demonical, pagan, heathen

Usage examples:

• We have here the idealist Misheka and the sectarian Ostrovsky, a transported prisoner who is embittered by his hard lot, and by life in general. - "Contemporary Russian Novelists", Serge Persky.
• Baldwin had himself previously introduced a bill of a similar character as a compromise, but it had failed to meet with any support, and when he came into office he saw that he must go much further and establish a non- sectarian university if he expected to carry any measure on the subject in the legislature. - "Lord Elgin", John George Bourinot.
• They represent different orders of ideas and some of the later are distinctly sectarian. - "Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch", Charles Eliot.