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  • noun Plural form of sectionary.

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Examples

  • Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical

    Les Miserables 2008

  • This delay gave Barras a chance to insinuate that his ardent republican friend, who all the previous week had been eagerly soliciting employment, was untrustworthy in the crisis, and had been negotiating with the sectionaries.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • Numerous sectionaries were, in fact, posted there as auxiliaries at the crucial instant.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Both parties agreed to withdraw; but the conventional troops had no sooner retired than the sectionaries returned reinforced.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • Réveillère; to cause the other two to join the legislative body; if the government refused to obey, to sound the tocsin, and march with the old sectionaries against the directory; to place Pichegru at the head of this

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • Some of these young men and some of the sectionaries were royalists; others followed the impulse of the moment, which was anti - revolutionary.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • This party, impatient and unskilful, unable to employ the whole of the sectionaries, as in Vendémiaire, or the mass of the councils, as on the

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • At last, a deputation of the sectionaries went so far as to call the constitution of '93 a decemviral constitution, dictated by terror.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • The tocsin was immediately sounded, the barriers closed, the general council assembled, and the sectionaries called together.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

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