Sectionary

Quick meaning: Sectionary is a noun meaning (historical) A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.

Meaning

(historical) A member of a French antiroyalist political party that was one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.

More Meanings

1. (historical) A member or supporter of the sectionary party.
2. (historical) Pertaining to the sectionary party.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• sectionaries

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