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.
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(61) But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
(62) Toutuo ( unconstraint ) is one of the key conceptions of Yang Wanli's on poetry, which stemmed from Chan sect.
(63) The third part analyses the adaptability of Hasidism in the mainstream of American society through it in such a point of view as the sect of religion and political participation.
(64) To be sure, the Puritans had been a dissenting sect in England, but they became an established church in Massachusetts.
(65) "I recollect, " said Waverley; "but did not the triumph of Presbytery AT the Revolution extinguish thAT sect?"
(66) The Soto (Chinese: Ts'ao-tung) sect, transmitted to Japan by Dogen on his return from China in 1227, prefers the method of sitting in meditation (zazen).
(67) Officials in Texas are taking the polygamist sect case to the state's highest court.
(68) Juad Ibne Dirham, a leader of atheist sect had kept some mud and water in a glass bottle.
(69) Thus, the Zen sect resulted in the dual tendency of tranquil mental pursuit and sentimental low-spirited mentality of the early song literary men.
(70) That strange new religious sect conducts its services in dog Latin.
(71) Some 80 members of the Branch Davidian sect died in a 1993 siege in Waco, Texas, after a 51-day stand-off with federal agents ended in a fire.
(72) Sect is only one of many weighting factors to be considered in judging a nativity.
(73) He said that today not only participates in the demonstration to have Shiah, but also has from the northern Kurds autonomous region Kurd and the sunni sect which comes from the Salahe tetracene .
(74) Quanzhen Sect 3 of the Ecumenical thinking is very clear that this is an important feature.
(75) The decision to cast Cruise in the role has caused anger in Germany because of his strong links to the Church of Scientology ,[www.Sentencedict.com] which is regarded here as a sect.
(76) "Quaker" is a popular name for a member of a Christian sect named the Society of Friends and founded by George Fox in mid-17th century England.
(77) Sociologists of religion have appropriated the term "sect" as a label for a specific type of religious movement.
(78) The group breakaway Mormon sect that advocates polygamy and underage marriages.
(79) Since last week, police have interviewed members of the polygamist sect looking for evidence.
(80) It seems to some fans the principles of druidism would be antithetical to the majority of high elves, and it didn't appear there was any indication of any renegade sect of druids.
(81) A member of an Anabaptist sect originating in Moravia and now living communally in parts of Canada and the northwest United States.
(82) Perhaps it was unwise of him to blame just one religion for trying to mark out urban territory; in recent memory, one British city (Belfast) had no-go areas for people of the "wrong" Christian sect.
(83) The philosophy of perfect interfusion, put forward by Chih-i, the de-facto founder of Tiantai Sect, is the basis of Tiantai Buddhism.
(84) A police station in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has been destroyed in an attack blamed on the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
(85) There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.
(86) Romance of Enfeoffment to Deities shows strong mysticism of foreign culture with plenty of cultural elements of mi sect.
(87) The Moravian happened not to please his colleagues, and on his death they resolved to have no other of that sect.
(88) So we can say that he changed Shiah Sect in Lebanon and Lebanon.
(89) Unitarianism – a sect that, perhaps more than any other, embodies the spirit of Enlightenment religiosity – saw its membership decline by 20 percent during the last quarter of the 20th century.
(90) There is no question of Beijing mounting pressure on the SAR to ban the sect.
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