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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Sect

The Bible

Bible Usage:

  • sect used 5 times.

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sect

(Gr. hairesis, usually rendered "heresy", Acts 24:14; 1 Chronicles 11:19; Galatians 5:20, etc.), meaning properly "a choice," then "a chosen manner of life," and then "a religious party," as the "sect" of the Sadducees (Acts 5:17), of the Pharisees (15:5), the Nazarenes, i.e., Christians (24:5). It afterwards came to be used in a bad sense, of those holding pernicious error, divergent forms of belief (2 Peter 2:1; Galatians 5:20).


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sect

SECT, noun. [Latin Sp. secta; from Latin seco, to cut off, to separate.]

1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men. Most sects have originated in a particular person, who taught and propagated some peculiar notions in philosophy or religion, and who is considered to have been its founder. Among the jews, the principal sects were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In Greece were the Cynic sect, founded by Antisthenes; and the Academic sect, by Plato. The Academic sect gave birth to the Peripatetic, and a Cynic to the Stoic.

2. A cutting or coin. [Not used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectarian

SECTA'RIAN, adjective. [Latin secrarius.] Pertaining to a sect or sects; as sectarian principles or prejudices.

SECT'ARIAN, noun. One of a sect; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from the established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a kingdom or state.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectarianism

SECTA'RIANISM, noun. The disposition to dissent from the established church or predominant religion, and to form new sects.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectarism

SECT'ARISM, noun. Sectarianism. [Little used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectarist

SECT'ARIST, noun. A secretary. [Not much used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectary

SECT'ARY, noun.

1. A person who separates from an established church, or from the prevailing denomination of christians; one that belongs to a sect; a dissenter.

2. a follower; a pupil. [Not in use.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectator

SECTA'TOR, noun. A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect. [Not now used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectile

SECT'ILE, adjective. [Latin sectilus, from seco, to cut.] A sectile mineral is one that is midway between the briddle and the malleable, as soapstone and plumbago.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Section

SEC'TION, noun [L. sectio; seco, to cut off.]

1. The act of cutting or of separating by cutting; as the section of the bodies.

2. A part separated from the rest; a division.

3. In books and writings, a distinct part or portion; the subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing or instrument. In laws, a section is sometimes called a paragraph or article.

4. A distinct part of a city, town, country or people; a part of territory separated by geographecal lines, or of a people considered as distinct. Thus we say, the northern or eastern section of the United States, the middle section, the southern or western section.

5. In geometry, a side or surface of a body or figure cut off by another; or the place where lines, planes, etc. cut each other.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sectional

SEC'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a section or distinct part of a larger body or territory.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sector

SECT'OR, noun [L. seco, to cut.]

1. In geometry, a part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the arch; or a mixed triangle, formed by two radii and the arch of a circle.

2. A mathematical instrument so marked with lines of sines, tangents, secants, chords, etc. as to fit all radii and scales, and useful in finding the proportion between quantities of the same kind. The sector is founded on the fourth proposition of the sixth book of Euclid, where it is proved that similar triangles have their homologous sides proportional.