Sect
[sekt] or [sɛkt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A cutting; a scion.
(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.
編輯:勒罗伊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Denomination, school.
錄入:帕特里斯
解釋/意思:
n. a body of men who unite in holding some particular views esp. in religion and philosophy: those who dissent from an established church: a denomination: a school of philosophy: a party: faction: apparel: a part cut off.—adj. Sectā′rian pertaining to or peculiar to a sect: bigotedly devoted to the interests of a sect narrow exclusive (also Sectā′rial).—n. one of a sect: one strongly imbued with the characteristics of a sect.—v.t. Sectā′rianise.—ns. Sectā′rianism quality or character of a sectarian: excessive devotion to a sect; Sec′tarist; Sec′tary one of a sect: a dissenter; Sectā′tor (obs.) an adherent of a school or party; Sec′tist; Sect′-mas′ter the leader of a sect.—Sectarial marks emblems marked on the foreheads of the different sects in India.
格雷戈里錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Don't talk to me, don't, you brute, for fear I should be perwoked to forgit my sect and strike you! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- For I have already shewn [Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- A great fire had burnt a large part of Rome, and the new sect was accused of causing this. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We shall afterwards take [Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- One hundred of the latter sect are all that dwell now in this birthplace of Christianity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I have already observd [Part II, Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Thus we may establish it as a certain maxim, that we can never, by any principle, but by an irregular kind [Such as that of Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The sect of the Anabaptists appeared in Wittenberg in 1521 under three prophets, and broke out into insurrection in 1525. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The religion of the Daggestans, says he, is generally Mohammedan, some following the sect of Osman, others that of Haly. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Almost every different congregation might probably have had a little sect by itself, or have entertained some peculiar tenets of its own. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have already observed [Part II, Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But though these two operations be equally natural and necessary in the human mind, yet in some circumstances they are [Sect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Theoretically, Mr. Yorke placed all sects and churches on a level. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There is a difference of theory and belief on this point amongst Protestants as amongst other sects, I answered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There would, and, in this case, no doubt, have been, a great multitude of religious sects. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The austere system of morality has, accordingly, been adopted by those sects almost constantly, or with very few exceptions; for there have been some. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
伊恩校對