- Clique - Pressure group - Sedition - Splinter group - One of the divisions or parties of charioteers
(distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. - A party, in political society, combined or acting in
union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to
a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or
clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests,
especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. - Tumult; discord; dissension.
- Splinter group - One who secedes. - One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who
seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year
1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.