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- noun Plural form of
sectarian .
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Edit. (iv. 52) calls them “Khawárij” = certain sectarians in Eastern Arabia.
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On the triumph of 'sectarians' - a term covering religious fundamentalists of all stripes - he was explicit.
Jihad Watch 2008
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I well know that some of my readers will heartily approve of her in this very thing, and that not a few _good dissenters_ on the other hand, who are equally and in precisely the same way sectarians, that is bad
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
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We also have our microfraction made up of elements from old sectarians which is not the same thing as being old communists.
LASO CLOSING SESSION 1967
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The clergy seemed to become daily more and more confirmed in their belief that those who were affected were a kind of sectarians, and on this account they hastened their exorcisms as much as possible, in order that the evil might not spread among the higher classes, for hitherto scarcely any but the poor had been attacked, and the few people of respectability among the laity and clergy who were to be found among them were persons whose natural frivolity was unable to withstand the excitement of novelty, even though it proceeded from a demoniacal influence.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.
Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011
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Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.
Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011
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Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.
Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011
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The sectarians apparently think President Yudhoyono is serious about stopping their violence.
Religion Run Amok 2011
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Arab. hashshashin and hashishiyyin, lit. "a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.
Chris Weigant: Should America Assassinate? Chris Weigant 2011
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