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Look up: Sect

  1. Sect
    A religious movement which breaks away from orthodoxy.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20212

  2. sect
    [n] - a subdivision of a larger religious group
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Sect
    a type of religious organisation that stands apart from the larger society
    Found on http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/obj

  4. Sect
    Sect (sĕkt) noun [ Latin secare , sectum , to cut.] A cutting; a scion. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/51

  5. Sect
    Sect (sĕkt) noun [ French secte , Latin secta , from sequi to follow; often confused with Latin secare , sectum , to cut. See Sue to follow, and confer Sept , Suit , ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/51

  6. sect
    religious order noun a subdivision of a larger religious group
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Sect
    • (n.) A cutting; a scion. • (n.) Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especia...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. sect
    • a subdivision of a larger religious group
    • a dissenting clique

    Found on

  9. sect
    Small ideological group, usually religious in nature, that may have moved away from a main group, often claiming a monopoly of access to truth or salvation. Sects are usually highly exclusive. They demand strict conformity, total commitment to their code of behaviour, and complete personal involveme...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  10. sect
    A group of followers of a religious teacher or leader.
    Found on http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossa

  11. Sect
    General name for one of the three primary groups among the Kindred- the camarilla, Sabbat or Inconnu.
    Found on http://www.phrozen-neon.com/vampire/glos

  12. Sect
    A `sect` is a group with distinctive religious, political or philosophical beliefs. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and pr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect

  13. Sect
    (band) `Sect` was a Vancouver, Canada industrial trance band, comprising Michael Victory, Jason McEvoy and Bruce Young, who released an album on Third Mind Records in 1994 (engineered by Front Line Assembly`s Chris Petersen) and were represented on a handful of Dossier compilations from 1993–1995. Discography: Albums:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect

  14. Sect
    (dance pop band)
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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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