sect : Idioms & Phrases

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amish sect

  • noun an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania
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Ionic sect

  • a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things.
Webster 1913

religious sect

  • noun a subdivision of a larger religious group
    religious order; sect.
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