Definition of "schismatic"

schismatic

/ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/

adjective
1. (religion) Of or pertaining to a schism.
2. (music) Of or pertaining to a schisma.
3. Divisive.
noun
plural schismatics
1. (religion) A person involved in a schism.
  Quotations
  He semeth a sysmatykeOr els an heretike,For fayth in hym is faynte.
  c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, page 62, lines 17–19
  Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
  1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], page 267