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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sect \Sect\, n. [L. secare, sectum, to cut.] A cutting; a scion. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sect \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sect n 1: a subdivision of a larger religious group [syn: {religious order}] 2: a dissenting clique [syn: {faction}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Sect (Gr. hairesis usually rendered "heresy", Acts 24:14; 1 Chr. 11:19; Gal. 5:20, etc.), meaning properly "a choice," then "a chosen manner of life," and then "a religious party," as the sect" of the Sadducees (Acts 5:17), of the Pharisees (15:5), the Nazarenes, i.e., Christians (24:5). It afterwards came to be used in a bad sense of those holding pernicious error, divergent forms of belief (2 Pet. 2:1; Gal. 5:20).
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