SECTIUNCLE also SECTIUNCULE NOUN 1. a small section ...1838 rare 2. a small, insignificant religious body; a little or petty sect ...1851 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin type *sectiuncula, a diminutive of sectiōn-em FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1838 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...I think you will not find the manuscript very difficult to make out, though it is strangely cut in pieces and patched. I have divided it all through into sectiuncules, occupying generally from half a page to a whole one..." From: Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford: With Selections From His Correspondence - Robert Ornsby, 1884 Taken from correspondence by W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P. to J. R. Hope, Esq. House of Commons: July 18, 1838
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