sect en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /sɛkt/
Etymology
From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, guild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of secō.
Meanings
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An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
a religious sect
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A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.
1984, Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 104:The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.
1998, Mary McCormick Maaga, Hearing the Voices of Jonestown, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 75:Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.
1995, Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, Stillpoint Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type. In such sects the end of the world is taken as a central tenet.
1995, Stuart A. Wright, Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict, University Of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207:There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.
1996, John Ankerberg, John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 216:Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.
1999, R. C. S. Trahair, Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 47:
- (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sects | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
sectwise · sectant · sectism · subsect · sectist
Hypernyms
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Translations (114)
lo ນິກາຍ (religious movement) · pl sekta (religious movement) · ota فرقه (religious movement) · nb sekt (religious movement) · eo sekto (religious movement) · bg се́кта (religious movement) · hy սեկտա (religious movement) · prs مَذْهَب (religious movement) · he כיתה (religious movement) · ko 섹트 (religious movement) · ps فرقه (religious movement) · tk sekta (religious movement) · my ဂိုဏ်း (religious movement) · bn ফেরকা (religious movement) · es culto (religious movement) · he כַּת (religious movement) · fr secte (religious movement) · ja 教派 (religious movement) · cmn 宗派 (religious movement) · ro sectă (religious movement) · hi मज़हब (religious movement) · hi फिरका (religious movement) · ja 分派 (religious movement) · tk mezhep (religious movement) · bo ཆོས་ལུགས (religious movement) · cs sekta (religious movement) · tg фирқа (religious movement) · az məzhəb (religious movement) · sl sekta (religious movement) · hi पंथ (religious movement) · et sekt (religious movement) · hi संप्रदाय (religious movement) · sv sekt (religious movement) · sh sȅkta (religious movement) · da sekt (religious movement) · gl seita (religious movement) · ar نِحْلَة (religious movement) · lb sekten (religious movement) · sa निकाय (religious movement) · ug مەزھەپ (religious movement) · mn шашны бүлэглэл (religious movement) · grc αἵρεσις (religious movement) · nl sekte (religious movement) · mk секта (religious movement) · ar مَذْهَب (religious movement) · cmn 邪教 (religious movement) · el σέκτα (religious movement) · kk секта (religious movement) · ja 宗派 (religious movement) · fa-ira مَذْهَب (religious movement) · ko 분파 (religious movement) · sh се̏кта (religious movement) · ru се́кта (religious movement) · pi nikāya (religious movement) · be сэ́кта (religious movement) · ur مَذْہَبْ (religious movement) · cmn 教派 (religious movement) · id mazhab (religious movement) · my နိကာယ (religious movement) · sq sekt (religious movement) · it setta (religious movement) · fi lahko (religious movement) · is sértrúarsöfnuður (religious movement) · ja セクト (religious movement) · lv sekta (religious movement) · ka სექტა (religious movement) · kum мазгьап (religious movement) · uz sekta (religious movement) · kmr mezheb (religious movement) · hy աղանդ (religious movement) · hu szekta (religious movement) · ur فِرْقَہ (religious movement) · id sekte (religious movement) · tr mezhep (religious movement) · pt seita (religious movement) · tl sekta (religious movement) · ko 종파 (religious movement) · ja カルト (religious movement) · ky секта (religious movement) · he כִּתָּה (religious movement) · ca secta (religious movement) · gu પંથ (religious movement) · km និកាយ (religious movement) · uz mazhab (religious movement) · vi giáo phái (religious movement) · ms taifah (religious movement) · de Sekte (religious movement) · az sekta (religious movement) · sa सम्प्रदाय (religious movement) · ota مذهب (religious movement) · ar فِرْقَة (religious movement) · th นิกาย (religious movement) · be се́кта (religious movement) · prs فِرْقَه (religious movement) · ar طائِفَة (religious movement) · uz firqa (religious movement) · sk sekta (religious movement) · uk се́кта (religious movement) · la cultus (religious movement) · ko 교파 (religious movement) · nrf secte (religious movement) · pdt Sakjt (religious movement) · bn সম্প্রদায় (religious movement) · es secta (religious movement) · el αίρεση (religious movement) · fa-ira فِرْقِه (religious movement) · lt sekta (religious movement) · nl afscheiding (religious movement) · ms sekta (religious movement) · hi निकाय (religious movement) · yi סעקטע (religious movement) · hi फ़िरक़ा (religious movement) · tg мазҳаб (religious movement) · ia secta (religious movement)