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Sect n. A cutting; a scion. (Obs.)

Sect 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." "As of the sect of which that he was born, He kept his lay, to which that he was sworn." "The cursed sect of that detestable and false prophet Mohammed." "As concerning this sect (Christians), we know that everywhere it is spoken against."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... high into prominence. The appearance of the Karaites (eighth century), who rejected the Talmud and held exclusively to the Scriptures, brought into existence, either directly or indirectly, a rational, independent method of exegesis, though the influence of this sect upon the development of Biblical studies has been grossly magnified. It was the celebrated Saadia (892-942) who by his translation of, and commentary upon, the Bible opened up a new period in the history of exegesis, during which the natural method was applied to ...

— Rashi • Maurice Liber

... concerns our lady-legatees. What became of Miss Julia, after the safe and successful issue of that vengeful trial, I never heard: and, perhaps, it may be wise not to inquire: if she changed her name, she did not change her nature: and is probably still to be numbered among the sect of Strand peripatetics. ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... Messer Guido was of the sect of the Epicureans and loved to marshal well-arranged arguments against the existence of God. He was used to declare the death of men is precisely the same as ...

— The Well of Saint Clare • Anatole France

... been an "Evangelical," but his wife being a New Mennonite, a sect largely prevailing in southeastern Pennsylvania, the funeral services were conducted by two ministers, one of them a New Mennonite and the other an Evangelical. It was the sermon of the New Mennonite ...

— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin

... up to a sort of religious ecstasy, as I had seen the revivalist sect he belonged to, known as the Holy Jumpers, ...

— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

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