About The Word Sect
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What's The Definition Of Sect?
[n] a subdivision of a larger religious group
[n] a dissenting clique Synonyms | Synonyms for Sect: faction | religious order | religious sect Related Terms | Find terms related to Sect: See Also | Amish sect | brethren | camp | clique | convent | coterie | faith | Hare Krishna | Haredi | High Anglican Church | High Church | ingroup | inner circle | International Society for Krishna Consciousness | ISKCON | Jainism | Kokka | Kokka Shinto | left | left wing | old guard | pack | pro-choice faction | pro-life faction | Quakers | religion | Religious Society of Friends | right | right wing | Saktism | Shakers | Shaktism | Shivaism | Shua | Shuha Shinto | sisterhood | Sivaism | Society of Friends | Society of Jesus | splinter group | Taoism | Vaishnavism | Vaisnavism Sect In Webster's Dictionary \Sect\, n. [L. secare, sectum, to cut.]
A cutting; a scion. [Obs.] --Shak.
\Sect\, n. [F. secte, L. sects, fr. sequi to follew; often confused with L. secare, sectum, to cut. See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Sept}, {Suit}, n.] Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party. He beareth the sign of poverty, And in that sect our Savior saved all mankind. --Piers Plowman. As of the sect of which that he was born, He kept his lay, to which that he was sworn. --Chaucer. The cursed sect of that detestable and false prophet Mohammed. --Fabyan. As concerning this sect [Christians], we know that everywhere it is spoken against. --Acts xxviii. 22. |
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