sectionalize
verbEtymology From sectional + -ize.
1
To divide into sections.
- 1886-90, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History On the whole, the principal results of the struggle were, to sectionalize parties more completely, ripen Southern sentiment towards secession, and combine wavering voters in the free-States in support of Republican doctrines.
- Derived terms
- resectionalize, unsectionalized
- Related terms
- sectionalization