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SECT , a See also:body of persons holding distinctive or See also:separate doctrines or opinions, especially in matters of See also:religion; thus there are various sects among the See also:Jews, the Mahommedans, and the Buddhists, &c. In the See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church it has usually a hostile or depreciatory sense and is applied, like " sectary," to all religious bodies outside the one to which the user of the See also:term belongs.
The latter use has been influenced by the false See also:etymology which makes the word mean " cut off " (See also:Lat. secare, to cut). The derivation has been See also:long a See also:matter of dispute. The Latin secta was used in classical Latin first of a way, a trodden or beaten path ; it seems to be derived from secare, to cut, cf. the phrase secare viam, to travel, take one's way, Gr. r zvecv bIbv. From the phrase sec/am sequi, to follow in the footsteps of any one, the word came to mean a party, following, See also:faction. Another transferred sense is a manner or mode of See also:life, so hanc sectam rationemque vitae . . . secuti sumus (Cie. Gael. 17, 40). It was also the See also:regular word for a school of See also:philosophy and so translates alpeats, lit. choice (alpeIaBac,to choose), from which is derived " See also:heresy " (q.v.). The See also:Vulgate (N.T.) translates aipeocs sometimes by secta, sometimes by haeresis. In Med. Lat., besides these uses we find secta meaning a suit at See also:law, a suit of clothes, and a following or See also:suite. These meanings point to the derivation of secta adopted by See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet., 1910) ; which connects the word with sequi, to follow. Whichever derivation is accepted a " sect " does not mean a See also:part " cut off " from the church.
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