sectionality 
sectionality (sek-sho-nal'i-ti), . [< sectional 
+ ~ity.] The quality of being sectional; sec- 
tionalism . 
sectionalization (sek"shpn-al-i-za'shon), H. [< 
xretioiialisf + -rt Hon.] The act of rendering 
sectional in scope or spirit. 
Cincinnati gathered the remains of a once powerful na- 
tional party, and contributed to its further sectumalization 
and destruction. S. Bowles, in Merriam, I. 1.V2. 
sectionalize (sek'shou-al-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
xi'i'tiriiiiili~ed, ppr. sectionalizing. [< sectional + 
-ize.] To render sectional in scope or spirit. 
The principal results of thestruggle were togectionalize 
parties. The Century, XXXIV. 524. 
sectionally (sek'shon-al-i), adv. In a sectional 
manner; in or by sections. N. A. Re-r., CXXVI. 
316. 
section-beam (sek'shon-bem), H. Iii warping, 
a roller which receives the yarn from the spools, 
either for the dressing-machine or for the loom. 
In the latter case, also called yarn-beam. K. H. 
Knit/lit. 
section-cutter (sek'shon-kufer), . An instru- 
ment used for making sections for microscopic 
work. Some forms have two parallel hlades ; others 
work mechanically, and consequently with more precision. 
The specimen from which the section is to he taken is 
often frozen by means of ether-spray or otherwise. Also 
called microtome. 
sectionize (sek'shon-iz), c. t. ; pret. and pp. sec- 
tionized, ppr. sectionizing. [< section + -i:e,~\ 
To cut up, divide, or form into sections. 
The sectionized parts became perfect individuals on the 
day of their division. 
T. Gill, Smithsonian Report, 1885, p. 786. 
This whole region was sectionized by the general land 
office several years previously. Science, VIII. 142. 
section-liner (sek'shon-li'ner), H. A drafts- 
man's instrument for ruling parallel lines, it 
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sector, a cutter, LL. a sector of a circle (tr. Gr. 
ro/ievc.), < secure, pp. sectiis, cut: see secant, sec- 
tion.] 1. In geom. : (a) Aplane 
figure inclosed between the arc 
of a circle, ellipse, or other cen- 
tral curve and two radii to its 
extremities from the center. 
Thus, in the figure, CDB is a. sar- 
tor of a circle. (6) A solid gen- 
erated by the revolution of a 
plane sector about one of its 
radii. 2. A mathematical rule 
consisting of two flat pieces connected by a 
stiff rule-joint so that the broad sides move in 
their own planes, and bearing various scales, 
especially double scales which are scales of 
Sector, i. 
Section-liner. 
a, a, straight-edge ; *, triangle moving on a for a distance determined 
by the set of the micrometer-scale c; 3, spring for releasing triangle 
and keeping it in the end of its slot. 
consists of a triangle so attached to a straight-edge that 
it can be moved back and forth on it a distance prede- 
termined by the adjustment of a set-screw. 
section-plane (sek'shqn-plan), n. A cut sur- 
face ; a plane exposed by section. 
The section plat >e , as made by the saw, passed just sinis- 
trad of the meson. 
Buck's Handbook of Hed. Sciences, VIII. 109. 
sectioplanography (sek"shi-o-pla-nog'ra-fi), . 
[< L. sectio(n-), a cutting off, -f planus, plane, + 
Gr. -ypcufiia, < ypaifieiv, write.] A method of lay- 
ing down the sections of engineering work, as 
railways, in which the line of direction is made 
a datum-line, the cuttings being plotted on the 
upper part and the embankments on the lower 
part of the line. 
sectism (sek'tizm), M. [< sect* + -ism.] Sec- 
tarianism; devotion to a sect. [Rare.] Imp. 
Diet. 
sectist (sek'tist), n. [< secft + -ist.] One de- 
voted to a sect ; a sectarian. [Rare.] 
The Diuell . . . would maintaine, 
By sundry obstinate Sectists (but in vaine), 
There was not one Almighty to begin 
The great stupendious Worke. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 19. 
sectiuncle (sek'ti-ung-kl), . [< L. as if *sec- 
tiuncula, dim. of sectio(n-), a section; but in- 
tended as a dim. of sect: see sect 1 .] A petty 
sect. [Rare.] 
Some new sect or sectiuncle. J . Martineau. (Imp. DM.) 
sective (sek'tiv), a. [< L. sectivus, that may 
be cut, < secure, pp. sectus, cut, divide : see se- 
en nt.] Same as sectile. 
sect-mastert (sekt'mas"ter), n. The leader or 
founder of a sect. [Rare.] 
How should it be otherwise, when a blind company will 
follow a blind sect-master' Ben. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 76. 
That sect-master [Epicurus]. J. Home, Works, I. 28. 
sector (sek'tor), . [= F. secteur = Sp. Pg. 
sector = It. settore = D. G. Dan. Sw. seTetor, < L. 
trigonometric functions, etc., duplicated on the 
two pieces and radiating from the center of the 
joint. The joint is opened until the distance between 
two certain corresponding points is equal to the Indi- 
cated trigonometric line for a given radius, when the 
distances between all the corresponding points on all the 
double scales are equal to the respective trigonometric 
lines for the same radius. 
Bp. Seth Ward, of Sarum, has told me that he flrst sent 
for Mr. . . . Hunter, from London (being at Oxford uni- 
versity), to be his Professor of Geometric ; so he came and 
brought with him his sector and quadrant, and fell to re- 
solving of triangles and doeing a great many fine things. 
A ubrey, Lives, Henry Savill. 
3. An astronomical instrument consisting of a 
telescope turning about the center of a gradu- 
ated arc. It was formerly used for measuring 
differences of declination. See zenith-sector. 
4. In mecli., a toothed gear of which the face 
is an arc of a circle, intended for reciprocating 
action. See cut under operating-table. 5. In 
en torn., one of the veins of the wing of gome in- 
sects, as the ephemerids; a branch of the cubi- 
tus Sector Of a sphere, the solid generated by the 
revolution of the sector of a circle about one of its radii, 
which remains fixed ; a conic solid whose vertex coincides 
with the center of the sphere, and whose base is a segment 
of the same sphere. (See also dip-sector.) 
sectoral (sek'tor-al), a. [< sector + -al.] Of 
or belonging to a sector: as, a sectoral circle. 
Sectoral barometer, r.n instrument in which the 
height of the mercury is ascertained by observing the 
angle at which it is necessary to incline the tube in order 
to bring the mercury to a certain mark on the instru- 
ment. 
sector-cylinder (sek'tor-sil*in-der), . A cyl- 
inder of an obsolete form of steam-engine 
(never widely used), called the sector-cylinder 
steam-engine. It has the form of a sector of a cylin- 
der, in which, radially to the axis of the cylinder, a rec- 
tangular piston oscillates on a rocking-shaft a lever on 
the outer end of the shaft being connected to a crank for 
converting oscillating into continuous rotary motion. 
sector-gear (sek'tor-ger), . 1. See sector, 4. 
2. Same as variable wheel (which see, under 
wheel). 
sectorial (sek-to'ri-al), . and . [< NL. secto- 
rius, pertaining to a cutter, < sector, a cutter: 
see sector.] I. a. 1. In anat. and zool., adapt- 
ed for cutting, as a tooth; carnassial: specifi- 
cally said of a specialized molar or premolar, 
as the flesh-tooth of a carnivore : not said of in- 
cisors. 2. In math., of or relating to a sector. 
Sectorial harmonic. See harmonic. 
II, M. A sectorial tooth; a flesh-tooth; a 
scissor-tooth. 
sectorius (sek-to'ri-us), n.; pi. sectorii (-1). 
[NL. (sc. den(t-)s, tooth): see sectorial.] A sec- 
torial tooth : more fully called dens sectorius. 
Otcen. 
sector-wheel (sek'tor-hwel), n. Same as sector- 
gear. 
sectourt, >< See secutour. 
secular (sek'u-lar), a. and n. [Formerly also 
stecular ; < ME. secular, sender, seailere, < OF. 
seculier, seculer, F. seculier = Pr. Sp. seglar, 
secular = Pg. secular = It. secolare, < L. seecuto- 
ris, secularis, of or belonging to an age or period 
(pi. sxculares, sxcularia, the secular games), 
also LL. of or belonging to the world, worldly, 
secular, < seeculum, seculum, a generation, age, 
LL. the world: see secle.] I. a. 1. Celebrated 
or occurring once in an age or a century. 
The secular year was kept but once in a century. 
Addison. 
secularism 
2. Going on from age to age ; accomplished or 
taking place in the course of ages ; continued 
through an indefinite but IOMK period of time; 
not recurrent or periodical, so far as known : 
as, secular change of the mean annual temper- 
ature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of 
the globe; the secular inequality in the motion 
of a planet. The last, however, is known to be periodi- 
cal. It is called secular because, being dependent on the 
position of the orbits of the disturbing and disturbed 
bodies, not on the positions of the planets in the orbits, 
its period is excessively long. 
So far as the question of a secular change of the tem- 
perature is concerned, no definite result appears to have 
been reached by Flantamour. 
J. D. Whitney, Climatic Changes, p. 227. 
Shrinkage consequent on the earth's secular cooling led 
to the folding and crushing of parts of the crust. 
Mlit men >n, No. 3071, p. 298. 
3. Living for an age or ages; permanent. 
Though her l>ody die, her fame survives 
A secular bird ages of lives. Milton, S. A., I. 1707. 
Nature looks provokingly stable and secular. 
Kwrmu, Essays, 1st ser., p. 276. 
4. Of or pertaining to the things of time or of 
this world, and dissociated from or having no 
concern with religious, spiritual, or sacred 
matters or uses ; connected with or relating to 
the world or its affairs ; concerned with mun- 
dane or temporal matters ; temporal ; worldly ; 
profane: as. secular affairs; the secular press; 
secular education ; secular music. 
When Christianity first appeared, how weak and de- 
fenceless was it, how artless and undesigning ! How ut- 
terly unsupported either by the secular arm or secular 
wisdom! Bp. Attertwry, Sermons, I. iii. 
The secular plays . . . consisted of a medley of differ- 
ent performances, calculated chiefly to promote mirth, 
without any view to instruction. 
Strut!, Sports and Pastimes, p. 24-2. 
A secular kingdom is but as the body 
Lacking a soul. Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 1. 
5f. Lay, as opposed to clerical ; civil. See def . 4. 
He which that hath no wyf I holde him shent ; 
He lyveth helpless and al desolat 
I speke of folk ill secular estaat. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 78. 
6. Living in the world, not. in the cloister; 
hence, not bound by monastic vows or rules, 
nor subject to a monastic order: used especially 
of parish priests and other non-monastic clergy, 
as distinguished from the monastic or regular 
clergy. 
Those northern nations easily embraced the religion of 
those they subdued, and by their devotion gave great au- 
thority and reverence, and thereby ease, to the clergy, both 
secular and regular. Sir W. Temple. 
The Spanish Archbishop of Santa Fe has for his diocese 
the wild territory of New Mexico, which supports only 
thirty-six secular priests, nearly all of whom are Spaniards 
or Mexicans. nineteenth Century, XXVI. 811. 
Abandonment to the secular arm. See abandonment. 
Secular abbot, benefice, change, equation, per- 
turbations, etc. See the nouns. Secular games (ludi 
sxcidares). a festival of imperial Rome, celebrated at long 
but (despite the name, which would imply a fixed period 
or cycle) irregular intervals in honor of the chief among 
the gods and the prosperity of the empire. The festival 
lasted three days and nights, and was attended with sac- 
rifices, illuminations, choral hymns, and games and dra- 
matic representations of every description. This festival 
was a survival in a profoundly modified form of the Taren- 
tine or Taurian games of the republic, a very ancient fes- 
tival in propitiation of the infernal deities Dis and Proser- 
pine. Secular refrigeration, in yeol., the cooling of 
the earth from its supposed former condition of igneous 
fluidity. = Syn. 4. Temporal, etc. See worldly. 
II. n. If. A layman. 
Whether thou be male or female, . . . ordred or unor- 
dred, wys or fool, clerk or secuUer. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
The clergy thought that if it pleased the seculars it might 
be done. 
Hales, Letter from the Synod of Dort, p. 6. (Latham.) 
2. An ecclesiastic, such as a parish priest, 
who lives in the world and not in a monastery, 
is not subject to any monastic order or rule, 
and is bound only to celibacy; a secular priest; 
opposed to religious or regular. 
If cloistered Avarice scruple not to wrong 
The pious, humble, useful Secular, 
And rob the people of his daily care. 
Wordncorth, Eccles. Sonnets, ii. 19. 
While the Danish wars had been fatal to the monks 
the "regular clergy" as they were called they had also 
dealt heavy blows at the seculars, or parish priests. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 332. 
3. An unordained church officer, 
secularisation, secularise. See secularization, 
secularize. 
secularism (sek'u-lSr-izm), . [< secular + 
-ixni.] Exclusive attention to the present life 
and its duties, and the relegation of all con- 
siderations- regarding a future life to a second- 
ary place ; the system of the secularists : the 
