1. 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. |
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