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Home Dictionary Name: sectaryMelius [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...
Sandemanian
A follower of Robert Sandeman a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century See Glassite...
Sectarist
A sectary...
Sectary
A sectarian 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...
Sectist
One devoted to a sect a sectary...
Separatist
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...
Compendia sunt dispendia
Compendia sunt dispendia. (Abbreviations are detriments.) 'It is ever good to 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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