One that withdraws from an established church, to which he has belonged; a dissenter; a seceder; a schismatic; a sectary.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
Disjunction Roget’s Thesaurus §44
N. disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction|, seposition|, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition |, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist
V. be disjoined &c, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide|, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend &c. rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind|, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave
Adj. disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable
Adv. separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly
Dissent Roget’s Thesaurus §489
N. dissent, discordance, # difference diversity of opinion, nonconformity, protestantism, recusancy, schism, disaffection, secession, recantation, dissension, discontent, cavilling, protest, contradiction, noncompliance, dissentient, dissenter, non-juror, non-content, nonconformist, sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic, refusal
V. dissent, demur, call in question, differ in opinion, disagree, say no, refuse assent, refuse to admit, cavil, protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate, contradict, have no notion of, differ toto caelo, revolt at, revolt from the idea, shake the head, shrug the shoulders, look askance, look askant, secede, recant
Adj. dissenting, negative, dissident, dissentient, unconsenting, non-content, nonjuring, protestant, recusant, unconvinced, unconverted, unavowed, unacknowledged, out of the question, discontented, unwilling, extorted, sectarian, denominational, schismatic, heterodox, intolerant
Adv. no, at variance, at issue with, under protest
Phr. many men many minds, quot homines tot sententiae, tant s'en faut, il s'en faut bien, no way, by no means, count me out
Int. god forbid, not for the world, i'll be hanged if, never tell me, your humble servant, pardon me
Heterodoxy Roget’s Thesaurus §984
N. heterodoxy, error, false doctrine, heresy, schism, schismaticism, schismaticalness, recusancy, backsliding, apostasy, atheism, bigotry, fanaticism, iconoclasm, hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism, anthropomorphism, idolatry, superstition, dissent, sectarism, sectarianism, noncomformity, secularism, syncretism, religious sects, protestantism, arianism, adventism, jansenism, stundism, erastianism, calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, origenism, sabellianism, socinianism, deism, theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism &c. high church, low church, broad church, free church, ultramontanism, papism, papistry, monkery, papacy, anglicanism, catholicism, romanism, popery, scarlet lady, church of rome, greek church, paganism, heathenism, ethicism, mythology, polytheism, ditheism, tritheism, dualism, heathendom, judaism, gentilism, islamism, islam, mohammedanism, babism, sufiism, neoplatonism, turcism, brahminism, hinduism, buddhism, sabianism, gnosticism, hylotheism, mormonism, christian science, heretic, apostate, antichrist, pagan, heathen, painim, paynim, giaour, gentile, pantheist, polytheist, idolator, schismatic, sectary, sectarian, sectarist, seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter, nonconformist, nonjuror, bigot, fanatic, abdal, iconoclast, latitudinarian, deist, theist, unitarian, positivist, materialist, homoiousian, homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian, skeptic, protestant, huguenot, orthodox dissenter, congregationalist, independent, episcopalian, presbyterian, lutheran, calvinist, methodist, wesleyan, ana, baptist, mormon, latter-day saint, irvingite, sandemanian, glassite, erastian, sublapsarian, supralapsarian, gentoo, antinomian, swedenborgian, adventist, bible christian, bryanite, brownian, christian scientist, dunker, ebionite, eusebian, faith curer, curist, familist, jovinianist, libadist, quaker, restitutionist, shaker, stundist, tunker &c, ultramontane, anglican, oxford school, tractarian, puseyite, ritualist, puritan, catholic, roman, catholic, romanist, papist, jew, hebrew, rabbinist, rabbist, sadducee, babist, motazilite, mohammedan, mussulman, moslem, shiah, sunni, wahabi, osmanli, brahmin, brahman, parsee, sufi, buddhist, magi, gymnosophist, fire worshiper, sabian, gnostic, rosicrucian &c
Adj. heterodox, heretical, unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical, antiscriptural, apocryphal, unchristian, antichristian, schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic, sectarian, dissenting, dissident, secular &c, (lay) 997, pagan, heathen, heathenish, ethnic, ethnical, gentile, paynim, pantheistic, polytheistic, judaical, mohammedan, brahminical, buddhist, romish, protestant, bigoted, (obstinate) 606, superstitious, fanatical, idolatrous, visionary
Phr. "slave to no sect", superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur
No Bible verses found for "separatist".