sectionary

Pertaining to the sectionary party.

Adjective

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. - 1991, Malcolm Crook, Toulon in...

From section + -ary, calque of French sectionnaire.

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. - 1856, M. Mignet, History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814, →ISBN:
- 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. - 1973, William Scott,...
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 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. - 1897,...