SECT
\sˈɛkt], \sˈɛkt], \s_ˈɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of SECT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A cutting; a scion.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A cutting; a scion.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A number of persons who, following a teacher or leader, hold certain opinions; a following; a party; especially, a religious denomination.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A body of men who unite in holding some particular views, esp. in religion and philosophy: those who dissent from an established church.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A body of persons who have separated from others in virtue of some special doctrine, or set of doctrines, which they hold in common the disciples or followers of a philosophical teacher or leader of thought; a religious denomination which has separated from the Established Church.
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