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31SECT — an important term which is often loosely used to mean a religious GROUP that has broken away from an older TRADITION. Confusion is created by the fact that it is sometimes used theologically to refer to groups of questionable ORTHODOXY or… …
32sect — [[t]se̱kt[/t]] sects N COUNT A sect is a group of people that has separated from a larger group and has a particular set of religious or political beliefs …
33sect — noun (C) a group of people with their own particular set of beliefs and practices, especially within or separated from a larger religious group: an early, ascetic Christian sect …
34sect — noun she had been duped into joining a sect of supposed do gooders Syn: (religious) cult, religious group, denomination, persuasion, religious order; splinter group, faction …
35sect — See religious sect …
36Sect and Sects — • Etymology and meaning of the word sect Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sect and Sects Sect and Sects † …
37Sect Shinto — Sect Shinto, Shintoism revolving around the teachings a particular leader or group, with individual sects carrying out programs of religious education and worship. Sect Shinto evolved after the abolition of Shintoism as a state religion in Japan… …
38Sect (band) — Sect was a Vancouver, Canada industrial trance band, comprising Michael Victory, Jason McEvoy and Bruce Young, who released an album on Third Mind Records in 1994 (engineered by Front Line Assembly s Chris Petersen) and were represented on a… …
39Sect of Skhariya the Jew — Skariya the Jew is also the name used by Ivan III of Muscovy to refer to Zacharias de Ghisolfi. The Sect of Skhariya the Jew, much more commonly known as the Heresy of the Judaizers or Zhidovstvuyushchiye , was a sect that appeared in Novgorod… …
40Sect, der — Der Sêct, des es, plur. doch nur von mehrern Arten oder Quantitäten, die e, eine allgemeine Benennung derjenigen süßen Weine, welche aus Spanien und aus den Canarischen Inseln zu uns gebracht werden. Daher der Canarien Sect, von der Canarien… …
