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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sect

Sect (sĕkt), n. [L. secare, sectum, to cut.] A cutting; a scion. [Obs.] Shak.

Sect (sĕkt), n. [F. secte, L. secta, fr. sequi to follow; 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.