verb
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to render sectional
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to divide into sections, esp geographically
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In fact, it would have a tendency to sectionalize the party by which the change is made.
From The Facts of Reconstruction by Lynch, John R.
Like the Hearst and Scripps-Howard chains, the Ridder newspapers are not sectionalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
The variations from the Sonata are an early work; but, although definitely sectionalized and with only one change of tonality, they clearly reveal Beethoven's freedom of conception and his aversion to stereotyped treatment.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
It may be granted that Debussy's melodic line is very fluid and elastic, like Wagner's "continuous melody," not definitely sectionalized by balanced phrases or set cadences.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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