sect
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: sects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
pos: noun
examples: a religious sect
gloss: A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: A cutting; a scion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: sectarian
sectish
cult
Derived words: sectant
sectism
sectist
sectwise
subsect
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: sekt
lang: Arabic
word: فِرْقَة
roman: firqa
lang: Arabic
word: مَذْهَب
roman: maḏhab
lang: Arabic
word: طائِفَة
roman: ṭāʔifa
lang: Arabic
word: نِحْلَة
roman: niḥla
lang: Armenian
word: աղանդ
roman: aġand
lang: Armenian
word: սեկտա
roman: sekta
lang: Azerbaijani
word: məzhəb
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sekta
lang: Belarusian
word: сэ́кта
roman: sékta
lang: Belarusian
word: се́кта
roman: sjékta
lang: Bengali
word: ফেরকা
roman: pherka
lang: Bengali
word: সম্প্রদায়
roman: śomprodaẏ
lang: Bulgarian
word: се́кта
roman: sékta
lang: Burmese
word: ဂိုဏ်း
roman: guin:
lang: Burmese
word: နိကာယ
roman: ni.kaya.
lang: Catalan
word: secta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 宗派
roman: zōngpài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 教派
roman: jiàopài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 邪教
roman: xiéjiào
lang: Czech
word: sekta
lang: Danish
word: sekt
lang: Dutch
word: afscheiding
lang: Dutch
word: sekte
lang: Esperanto
word: sekto
lang: Estonian
word: sekt
lang: Finnish
word: lahko
lang: French
word: secte
lang: Galician
word: seita
lang: Georgian
word: სექტა
roman: sekṭa
lang: German
word: Sekte
lang: Greek
word: αίρεση
roman: aíresi
lang: Greek
word: σέκτα
roman: sékta
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αἵρεσις
roman: haíresis
lang: Gujarati
word: પંથ
roman: panth
lang: Hebrew
word: כַּת
roman: kat
lang: Hebrew
word: כיתה
lang: Hebrew
word: כִּתָּה
roman: kitá
lang: Hindi
word: पंथ
roman: panth
lang: Hindi
word: मज़हब
roman: mazhab
lang: Hindi
word: संप्रदाय
roman: sampradāy
lang: Hindi
word: निकाय
roman: nikāy
lang: Hindi
word: फ़िरक़ा
roman: firqā
lang: Hindi
word: फिरका
roman: phirkā
lang: Hungarian
word: szekta
lang: Icelandic
word: sértrúarsöfnuður
lang: Indonesian
word: sekte
lang: Indonesian
word: mazhab
lang: Interlingua
word: secta
lang: Italian
word: setta
lang: Japanese
word: 宗派
roman: shūha
lang: Japanese
word: 教派
roman: kyōha
lang: Japanese
word: セクト
roman: sekuto
lang: Japanese
word: カルト
roman: karuto
lang: Japanese
word: 分派
roman: bunpa
lang: Kazakh
word: секта
roman: sekta
lang: Khmer
word: និកាយ
roman: nikaay
lang: Korean
word: 종파
roman: jongpa
lang: Korean
word: 분파
roman: bunpa
lang: Korean
word: 섹트
roman: sekteu
lang: Korean
word: 교파
roman: gyopa
lang: Kumyk
word: мазгьап
roman: mazhap
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mezheb
lang: Kyrgyz
word: секта
roman: sekta
lang: Lao
word: ນິກາຍ
roman: ni kāi
lang: Latin
word: cultus
lang: Latvian
word: sekta
lang: Lithuanian
word: sekta
lang: Luxembourgish
word: sekten
lang: Macedonian
word: секта
roman: sekta
lang: Malay
word: sekta
lang: Malay
word: taifah
lang: Mongolian
word: шашны бүлэглэл
roman: šašny büleglel
lang: Norman
word: secte
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sekt
lang: Pali
word: nikāya
lang: Pashto
word: فرقه
roman: ferqá
lang: Dari
word: فِرْقَه
roman: firqa
lang: Dari
word: مَذْهَب
roman: mazhab
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فِرْقِه
roman: ferġe
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَذْهَب
roman: mazhab
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Sakjt
lang: Polish
word: sekta
lang: Portuguese
word: seita
lang: Romanian
word: sectă
lang: Russian
word: се́кта
roman: sékta
lang: Sanskrit
word: निकाय
roman: nikāya
lang: Sanskrit
word: सम्प्रदाय
roman: sampradāya
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: се̏кта
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȅkta
lang: Slovak
word: sekta
lang: Slovene
word: sekta
lang: Spanish
word: secta
lang: Spanish
word: culto
lang: Swedish
word: sekt
lang: Tagalog
word: sekta
lang: Tajik
word: фирқа
roman: firqa
lang: Tajik
word: мазҳаб
roman: mazhab
lang: Thai
word: นิกาย
roman: ní-gaai
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆོས་ལུགས
lang: Turkish
word: mezhep
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فرقه
roman: firqa
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مذهب
roman: mezheb
lang: Turkmen
word: mezhep
lang: Turkmen
word: sekta
lang: Ukrainian
word: се́кта
roman: sékta
lang: Urdu
word: مَذْہَبْ
roman: mazhab
lang: Urdu
word: فِرْقَہ
roman: firqa
lang: Uyghur
word: مەزھەپ
roman: mez'hep
lang: Uzbek
word: mazhab
lang: Uzbek
word: sekta
lang: Uzbek
word: firqa
lang: Vietnamese
word: giáo phái
lang: Yiddish
word: סעקטע
roman: sekte