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Sectary

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Melius [or Ssatius] est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos

Melius [or Ssatius] est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos.-(It is better to go to the fountainhead than to follow streamlets.) See COMPENDIA

Sectarist

A sectary

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Sandemanian

A follower of Robert Sandeman a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century See Glassite

Sectist

One devoted to a sect a sectary

Separatist

to which he has belonged a seceder from an established church a dissenter a nonconformist a schismatic a sectary

Compendia sunt dispendia

rely upon the book at large, for many times compendia sunt dispendia, and melius est petere fontes quam sectari rvulos.'-Co. Litt. 305 b. This passage from Coke is taken as the motto to Smith's Leading Cases.

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