sectionary

English

Etymology

section +‎ -ary, calque of French sectionnaire.

Noun

sectionary (plural sectionaries)

1. (historical) A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
   • 1835, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:

     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.

   • 1856, M. Mignet, History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814, →ISBN:

     Every indigent citizen was allowed forty sous a day, to enable him to be present at the sectionary meetings.

   • 1973, William Scott, Terror and repression in revolutionary Marseilles, page 256:

     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. (historical) A member or supporter of the sectionary party.
   • 1838, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers, The history of the French revolution, translated. with notes by F. Shoberl, page 283:

     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 church itself a band of patriots who were fighting at his side with the greatest valour, and who had cruel injuries to revenge.

   • 1835, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:

     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.

   • 1897, Alexandre Dumas, Sylvandire. The woman with the velvet necklace, page 95:

     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.

Translations

a member or supporter of the sectionary party

• French: sectionnaire (fr) m or f

Adjective

sectionary (not comparable)

1. (historical) Pertaining to the sectionary party.
   • 1991, Malcolm Crook, Toulon in War and Revolution, →ISBN, page 126:

     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.

Translations

pertaining to the sectionary party

• French: sectionnaire (fr)

See also

• sectionnaire