What does SECT mean?
Definitions for SECT
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Princeton's WordNet
sect, religious sect, religious ordernoun
a subdivision of a larger religious group
faction, sectnoun
a dissenting clique
Wiktionary
sectnoun
A cult or religious movement. a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.
A religious sect.
sectnoun
A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SECTnoun
Etymology: secte, French; secta, Latin, from sectando.
We’ll wear out,
In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by th’ moon. William Shakespeare, King Lear.The greatest vicissitude of things is the vicissitude of sects and religions: the true religion is built upon the rock; the rest are tossed upon the waves of time. Francis Bacon, Essays.
The jealous sects that dare not trust their cause
So far from their own will as to the laws,
You for their umpire and their synod take. Dryden.The academics were willing to admit the goods of fortune into their notion of felicity; but no sects of old philosophers did ever leave a room for greatness. Dryden.
A sect of free thinkers is a sum of ciphers. Richard Bentley.
Of our unbitted lusts, I take this that you call love to be a sect or cion. William Shakespeare, Othello.
Wikipedia
SECT
SECT is an American-Canadian vegan straight edge band formed in 2015, consisting of vocalist Chris Colohan, guitarists James Chang and Scott Crouse, bassist Steve Hart and drummer Andy Hurley. It released a self-titled debut album in 2016 and, after a signing to Southern Lord, the sophomore No Cure for Death in 2017. SECT members come from several 1990s and 2000s political hardcore bands, including Cursed, Catharsis, Undying, Earth Crisis and Racetraitor. The band's musical style has been described as a mix of metallic hardcore and crust punk, and their lyrics tackle several socio-political issues.
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sect
A sect is a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong, or a group that has separated from the larger group due to these differences. These beliefs, practices, or ideologies may also be political or philosophical in nature.
Webster Dictionary
Sectnoun
a cutting; a scion
Sectnoun
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
Etymology: [L. secare, sectum, to cut.]
Wikidata
Sect
A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger religious group. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and principles. The term is occasionally used in a malicious way to suggest the broken-off group follows a more negative path than the original. The historical usage of the term sect in Christendom has had pejorative connotations, referring to a group or movement with heretical beliefs or practices that deviate from those of groups considered orthodox. A sect as used in an Indian context refers to an organized tradition.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sect
sekt, 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. [Fr. secte—L. secta, a school of philosophy—secāre, sectum, to cut off.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SECT in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SECT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of SECT in a Sentence
If you, like me are angry, forget the party, forget the sect, you are today Lebanese, a child of Beirut.
We believe that Kuwait is for all its citizens and not for one party or sect, all live on its earth and ally themselves to its identity.
For the thousands of Jewish students and faculty at UCLA, Cullors represents a bigoted sect of the BLM movement that criminalizes the core of our collective existence and calls for its destruction, inviting her as a keynote speaker without explicitly retracting or addressing that bigoted part of her ideology amounts to mainstreaming that bigotry and, by implication, expelling Jewish students and faculty from equal membership in the Bruins tent of ‘equity, diversity and inclusion.
We distribute them according to sect or ethnicity so we can reach all areas, we send the Kurd to the Kurdish areas and the Turkman to the Turkmen areas.
When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole!”- Ramana Pemmaraju
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- طائفةArabic
- сэктаBelarusian
- сектаBulgarian
- sectaCatalan, Valencian
- sektaCzech
- sektDanish
- SekteGerman
- αίρεσηGreek
- sektoEsperanto
- culto, sectaSpanish
- sektEstonian
- secteFrench
- כתHebrew
- संप्रदाय, मज़हबHindi
- szektaHungarian
- աղանդArmenian
- sectaInterlingua
- sekteIndonesian
- sértrúarsöfnuðurIcelandic
- settaItalian
- 分派, セクト, カルト, 宗派, 教派Japanese
- 宗派, 종파Korean
- cultusLatin
- sektenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- sektaLithuanian
- sekteDutch
- sektNorwegian
- sektaPolish
- seitaPortuguese
- сектаRussian
- sekta, сектаSerbo-Croatian
- sektAlbanian
- sektSwedish
- பிரிவைTamil
- сектаUkrainian
- tông phái, 宗派Vietnamese
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