sect

4 letters in word "sect": C E S T.

No anagrams for sect found in this word list.

Words found within sect:

es est et sec set st te tes

• Definitions:
• a subdivision of a larger religious group faction: a dissenting clique
• In the sociology of religion a sect is generally a small religious or political group that has broken off from a larger group, for example from a large, well-established religious group, like a denomination, usually due to a dispute about doctrinal matters.
• 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 Frontline Assembly's Chris Petersen) and were represented on a handful of Dossier compilations from 1993-1995.
• Sects are philosophically-based power groups in the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game.
• In the role-playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting, by White Wolf Game Studio, a sect is a large organization of vampires with a leadership, rules and goals, that (at least in theory) trascend clan divisions.
• Comes from the greek word hairesis, meaning division. In this case the division is into two: day and night. The planets of the daytime division (sect) are the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, and the planets of the nocturnal sect are the Moon, Venus and Mars. ...
• Traditional weighting of emphasis based on whether a birth is diurnal or nocturnal. Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are of the diurnal sect and Moon, Venus and Mars are of the nocturnal sect. Mercury’s sect is convertible, depending on weighting of orientality, gender etc. ...
• A body of persons distinguished by peculiarities of faith and practice from other bodies adhering to the same general system
• A group sharing a common belief that has broken off from a larger group.
• A school or subgroup within Buddhism that usually forms around a set of teachings or a particular text. In Tibetan Buddhism there are four main sects: the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Geluk. Other mahayana sects include the Pure Land, Chan (Zen), etc. ...

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