sect /ˈsɛkt/
宗派,教派,部分,段
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. --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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Sect n. A cutting; a scion. [Obs.]
sect
n 1: a subdivision of a larger religious group [syn: religious
sect, religious order]
2: a dissenting clique [syn: faction]
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).