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e of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.

a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter. I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries. Milton.

Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. "Sedentary, scholastic sophists." Bp. Warburton.

ives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

r final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

d the morality of actions." (b) "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

inion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject. Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external objects. Reid. Sentiment, as here and elsewhere employed by Reid in the meaning of opinion (sententia), is not to be imitated. Sir W. Hamilton.

want. Addison. Many other things belong to the material world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have never yeL. Watts.

. Milton. A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.

A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist. All this criticism [of Hume] proceeds upon the erroneous hypothesis that he was a dogmatist. He was a skeptic; that is, he accepted the principles ass…

position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.

A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. H. Spencer.

tes, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.

The philosophy or the method of Socrates.