Synonym: faction, religious order, religious sect. Similar words: insect, sector, bisect, dissect, section, sectarian, sectional, intersect. Meaning: [sekt] 
n. 1. a subdivision of a larger religious group 2. a dissenting clique.
n. 1. a subdivision of a larger religious group 2. a dissenting clique. 
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(1) They thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing.
(2) Members of the sect committed mass suicide.
(3) Hundreds are initiated into the sect each year.
(4) When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.
(5) Many people thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing.
(6) The leader of the religious sect and thirty of his followers killed themselves in a suicide pact last year.
(7) Followers of the sect espouse pure love and nonviolence.
(8) According to other accounts, the Dositheans were a sect dating back to Maccabaean times.
(9) She is a member of a religious sect that was formed from various aspects of Asian religions.
(10) This sect was and still is considered bizarre and highly irresponsible.
(11) The documentary explores the success of a Jewish sect intent on keeping ancient traditions alive.
(12) The sect did use assassination as a highly effective weapon, however, against other Persian groups.
(13) Justice to all, irrespective of race, sect or class is the inalienable right and the inescapable obligation of all.
(14) The third was to contain the sect heavies[sentence dictionary], once they had been overpowered and captured.
(15) All the others were from the sect hierarchy's lesser rank of Disciples.
(16) And yet you never hear about one sect of Baywatchers violently terrorizing another.
(17) They had come under the influence of a strange religious sect.
(18) When he was sixteen he ran away from home and joined a religious sect.
(19) In the 1890s there was a revival of interest in the sect, and several members of the Salvation Army joined Prince.
(20) A recent example is the 11-month campaign against the banned spiritual sect, Falun Gong.
(21) Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect.
(22) Two of the rigs were to provide transport for the ordinary sect members, after their release.
(23) Antislavery history thus entailed building a monument to the sect.
(24) Only two questions remained unanswered - the puzzling absence of any sect heavies and Grant's worrying non-return.
(25) The two figures in front of the small group were robed sect members.
(26) Today such a dilemma would engross only members of a sect, but then political society was also involved.
(27) Shinto sanctuaries came under the control of this new sect, known also as Dualist Shintoism.
(28) Longobardi had also stressed the remarkable accord on points of doctrine to be found among authors of the literati sect.
(29) This well-known story from Marco Polo's account dates from two hundred years after the sect had been crushed.
(30) It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.
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