sectionary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of…

   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.
   • Every indigent citizen was allowed forty sous a day, to enable him to be present at the sectionary meetings.
   • Thus the Revolutionary Tribunal followed, in its treatment of the commissaires of Marseilles and Aix, and their allies, the principles which marked its treatment of sectionary officeholders.
2. 2

   A member or supporter of the sectionary party.

   • 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.
   • You take a good deal for granted, my young Prusssssian ," rejoined the sectionary, pronouncing the word with a prodigality of s's which attracted the attention of half a score of idlers to the traveller.
3. 3

   Pertaining to the sectionary party.

   • Any explanation for the triumph of the 'federalist' or sectionary movement at Toulon must, therefore, begin by examining the profound isolation of the incumbent Jacobin administration.

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