sectator

A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.

Noun

  1. A follower, a disciple; someone who follows a particular school; partisan.
    • But that the Earth, Water, Air, are of a nature equally constituted immoveable about the centre, is it not the opinion of your self, Aristotle, Ptolomy, and all their sectators? - 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's...

Origin

Borrowed from Latin sectātor, from sector, frequentative of sequor (“follow”).

Forms

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