Sect
[sekt] or [sɛkt]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Denomination, school.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Don't talk to me, don't, you brute, for fear I should be perwoked to forgit my sect and strike you! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- For I have already shewn [Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A great fire had burnt a large part of Rome, and the new sect was accused of causing this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We shall afterwards take [Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The Latin priests say it was stolen away, long ago, by priests of another sect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One hundred of the latter sect are all that dwell now in this birthplace of Christianity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I have already observd [Part II, Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- 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. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The sect of the Anabaptists appeared in Wittenberg in 1521 under three prophets, and broke out into insurrection in 1525. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The religion of the Daggestans, says he, is generally Mohammedan, some following the sect of Osman, others that of Haly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Almost every different congregation might probably have had a little sect by itself, or have entertained some peculiar tenets of its own. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have already observed [Part II, Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But though these two operations be equally natural and necessary in the human mind, yet in some circumstances they are [Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Theoretically, Mr. Yorke placed all sects and churches on a level. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There is a difference of theory and belief on this point amongst Protestants as amongst other sects, I answered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There would, and, in this case, no doubt, have been, a great multitude of religious sects. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The austere system of morality has, accordingly, been adopted by those sects almost constantly, or with very few exceptions; for there have been some. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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