Crossword-Solution: SECT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sect | n. | A cutting; a scion. |
| Sect | 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; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SECT | anagram | CEST, CSET, ECTS, ETCS, TECS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SECT (5)
Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.
But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled.
Besides these Dervishes, were other three who had rushed into another sect, which mended matters with a jargon about “the Centre of Truth:” holding that Man had got out of the Centre of Truth--which did not need much demonstration--but had not got out of the Circumference, and that he was to be kept from flying out of the Circumference, and was even to be shoved back into the Centre, by fasting and seeing of spirits.
The Stundists--a sect--being broken up and dispersed; the clergy refusing first to marry, then to bury a Protestant.
After many mishaps and wanderings, Hasan became the head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians,--a party of fanatics who had long murmured in obscurity, but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will.
Quotes with SECT (3)
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of …
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,099 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).