sectn.¹

Brit.

/sɛkt/, U.S.

/sɛk(t)/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s secte, Middle English sekte, 1500s sekt, seacte, plural sextes, Scottish plural sekkis.

Etymology: < French secte (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), or directly < Latin secta following (used as cognate object in sectam sequi, to follow a particular course of conduct, to follow a person's guidance or example), hence a party or faction, a philosophical sect or school, a class or profession (in medieval Latin also the distinctive costume of a class or order of men), < sequ- root of sequī to follow: for the formation compare sectārī to pursue. The Latin word was adopted also in other Romance languages: Spanish secta, Portuguese secta, Italian setta. It has been maintained that Latin secta is the feminine participle of secāre to cut, an ellipsis for via secta, from the phrase viam secāre (after Greek τέμνειν ὁδόν) to make (lit. ‘to cut’) one's way. Formally this would be quite possible; but secta does not occur in the physical sense of ‘way’, nor does it appear that via secta was ever in use; and some of the uses of secta are more satisfactorily accounted for by derivation < sequī than < secāre.

†1.

a. A class or kind (of persons). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade

mannishOE

placec1330

state1340

gree1382

conditionc1384

sectc1384

sortc1386

ordera1400

raff?a1400

degreea1425

countenancec1477

faction?1529

estate1530

race1563

calibre1567

being1579

coat1579

rang1580

rank1585

tier1590

classis1597

strain1600

consequence1602

regiment1602

sept1610

standinga1616

class1629

species1629

nome1633

quality1636

sort1671

size1679

situation1710

distinction1721

walk of life1733

walk1737

stage1801

strata1805

grade1808

caste1816

social stratum1838

station1842

stratum1863

echelon1950

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame (Fairf.) 1432 Alderfirste, loo, ther I sighe,..Hym of Secte saturnyne, The Ebrayke Iosephus.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 13 How þis couetise ouer-cam alle kynne sectes, As wel lerede as lewede.

c1400 Rom. Rose 5745 Eke in the same secte are set Alle tho that prechen for to get Worshipes, honour, and richesse.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) iii. i. i viij b The sect of pouert hath a protection From all statutes to go at lyberte.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Nij Flaterers & hostlers, and other of this secte Are besy in thy chambre.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Ij Of whose secte .i. suite or sorte of profession we..set forth abrode into the market stede many clientes.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 932 The which act and priuilege did nourishe and encrease aboundauntly the sect and swarme of theeues and murderers.

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) Democritus to Rdr. 15 I know many of their Sect which haue taken Orders, in hope of a Benefice.

†b. A religious order. Obsolete.Properly a use of sense 1; but Wyclif affects to take it in sense 4, as if the orders (esp. the mendicant orders) were new religions, competing with the ‘sect’ of Christ.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > [noun]

order?c1225

religion?c1225

sectc1380

professiona1393

congregation1493

society1581

religious society1610

community1728

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule

order?c1225

religion?c1225

sectc1380

professiona1393

congregation1493

communityc1525

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 446 Þes foure sectis newe brouȝt in, as emperour clerkis, munkis & chanouns & þes foure ordris freris, disturblen moost þis fiȝtinge chirche & putten it fro þe cours of crist.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 293 Þoȝ men soȝt al sectes [v.r. þe sektis] of sistren & of breþeren.

1402 Jack Upland 106 Why stele ye mens children for to make hem of youre secte?

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 416 Þat he suld be of haly secte.

1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Pii^v Our halie fader ye paip and his bischopis giffis ane part of ye spulȝe quhilk thay reiff fra ye pwir to thir forsaid sekkis.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 36 Wicked sectes haue bin brought into the worlde vnder the names of Austin, Bernard, Francis, Dominik and others.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. li. 233 Ignatius then conceited had his Sect, And crau'd Confirmance of the Pope.

1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature (ed. 2) I. 142 As I think that there are only two houses of La Trappe existing, it may not be improper to mention, that this sect was first founded about a century ago, with the sanction of Pope Innocent the Eleventh.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. iii. 108 I..Made promise of the way her sect enjoins.

†c. The (human) race. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > people > [noun]

maneOE

worldOE

all fleshc1000

mankinOE

earthOE

little worldc1175

man's kinda1200

mankinda1225

worldrichec1275

slimec1315

kindc1325

world1340

sectc1400

humanityc1450

microcosma1475

peoplea1500

the human kindred?1533

race1553

homo1561

humankind1561

universality1561

deadly?1590

mortality1598

rational1601

vicegerent1601

small world1604

flesh and blooda1616

mannity1621

human race1623

universea1645

nations1667

public1699

the species1711

Adamhood1828

Jock Tamson's bairns1832

folx1833

Bimana1839

human1841

peeps1847

menfolk1870

manfolk1876

amniota1879

peoplekind1956

personkind1972

c1400 Rom. Rose 4859 Ne were ther generacioun Our sectis strene for to save.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iii. f. 41^v The Articulation of the head with the Vertebres..diuine nature y^e mother of humane sect, hath shewed therin more care.

d. Sex. Now nonstandard.A special use of sense 1; possibly suggested by the similarity in sound with sex n.¹ In modern English it may have originated afresh as an artificial pronunciation of sek (a singular evolved from the apparent plural sex) on the part of speakers of dialects that have final (k) for (kt).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex

sectc1386

gender1474

sexa1631

c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1171 For the wyues loue of Bathe Whos lyf and al hire secte god mayntene In heigh maistrie.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviii She me hath had so great in worshyp, that I nyl for nothyng in open declare, that in any thynge ayenst her secte maye so wene.

a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) v. sig. H1 Although it be a shame For knights to combat with the female sect.

1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters ii. sig. C4 'Tis the easiest Art and cunning for our sect to counterfeit sicke.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 6 Their controversie was to be determined by Tyresias, (one that had beene of both sects).

1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 77 These Robbers without Regard to Sect or Decency, stript all the Company stark naked.

1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure (1777) I. 173 The most artfullest of his sect.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 36 ‘Ye have skeel of our sect, sir,’ replied the dame.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 204/2 [Street-photographer loq.] A lady don't mind taking her bonnet off..before one of her own sect.

†2. Distinctive costume (of a class or order). Also transferred the ‘garb’ or guise (of humanity). Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > of class or sect

sect1377

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 237 Many tyme god hath ben mette amonge nedy peple, Þere neuere segge hym seigh in secte of þe riche.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 258 He bereth þe signe of pouerte, And in þat secte owre saueoure saued al mankynde.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. viii. 130 And sitthe in oure secte as hit semed, þow deydest, On a fryday, in forme of man feledest oure sorwe.

†3. Body of followers or adherents. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of

sect1450

phalanx1602

camp1885

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent > body of

inherdance1448

sect1450

adherence1549

adherencyc1600

1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 204/2 The said John Newport and other of his secte..so thretening the Kingis pepil of the Ile [etc.].

1512 W. Knight Let. 4 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 195 S^r William Sands and a few of his secte were in the contrarie opynyon of me.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxx. 216 The prouost and his sect exhorted hym therto.

1590–91 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 562 The..crafty practizes of M^r James Gordoun, fader bruthir to the Erll of Huntlie, and utheris of his sect.

1621 Gude & Godlie B. App. i. 234 Cum heir my Elect, and my awin sweit Sect, Ȝour hyre sall not be in weir.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 271 Et inde producit sectam suam, that is, he brings his sect or suite, or such as doe follow or affirme his complaint.]

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 147 My Sect thou seest, now learn too late How few somtimes may know, when thousands err.

4. A religious following; adherence to a particular religious teacher or faith.

†a. Applied to any of the main religions of the world, as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam; the principles, or the adherents collectively, of any one of these faiths. Obsolete.

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society > faith > sect > [noun]

sectc1386

society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]

churcheOE

kirkc1175

spousea1200

lawa1225

lorea1225

religionc1325

faithc1384

sectc1386

seta1387

leara1400

hirselc1480

professiona1513

congregation1526

communion1553

schism1555

segregation1563

sex1583

hortus conclususa1631

confessiona1641

dispensation1643

sectary1651

churchship1675

cult1679

persuasion1732

denomination1746–7

connection1753

covenant1818

sectarism1821

organized religion1843

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Corpus) 9 As of þe secte of which þat he was born he kepte his lay to which þat he was sworn.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 129 Whan þat false prophete Machometys..wroot and brouȝt yn þe false lawe and secte of Saracins.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 182 And thus in thilke time tho Began the Secte upon this Erthe, Which of believes was the ferthe.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 73 b/1 Kynge Salamon louyd ouermoche..straunge wymen of other sectes.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 86 Of what secte or contre so euer they be, hethen or crysten, sarasen, or Iewe.

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. xv. sig. h4^v Wolde to god y^t thou were of our holy secte and crysten beleue.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 74 Preaching the woord of Godd and sincere secte of Christe.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Biij^v Y^e Soldan or chefe ruler hereof, is of Mahumets secte as are y^e Turkes.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E3 How did the Christians vse onr [sic] Knights? Bru. As if that we and they had beene on[e] sect.

1600 R. Carr tr. Mahumetane Hist. f. 19 Abagan..tooke vpon him the supersticion of the sect of Mahumet.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xx. 73 Whilest these wicked Miscreants [sc. Mohammedans] fortifie themselves in their devilish Sect, let us trust in our Lord.

1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected I. iii. 139 At this time [an. 522] all the idolatry of the world was divided between two sects, that is, the worshippers of images, who were called the Sabians, and the worshippers of fire, who were called the Magians.

b. †(a) A system of belief or observance distinctive of one of the parties or schools into which the adherents of a religion are divided; sometimes spec. a system differing from what is deemed the orthodox tradition; a heresy. Obsolete. (b) A body of persons who unite in holding certain views differing from those of others who are accounted to be of the same religion; a party or school among the professors of a religion; sometimes applied spec. to parties that are regarded as heretical, or at least as deviating from the general tradition. the Clapham Sect: a name applied derisively early in the 19th cent. to a coterie of persons of Evangelical opinions and conspicuous philanthropic activity, some of whom lived at Clapham; among the chief members were Wilberforce, Zachary Macaulay, and Henry Thornton.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun]

dwildOE

misbeliefa1225

heresy?c1225

sect13..

misbelieving1340

irreligion1592

miscredence1603

steal-truth1628

Zendicism1697

pseudo-religion1856

Manichaeism1894

society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > instance of

sect13..

13.. S. Ambrose 276 (Vernon) in Horstm. Alteng. Leg. (1878) 12 Wiþ heretykes of þe secte of Arrian.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvi. 5 For vp [a1425 New Coll. Oxf. 67 that bi] the moost certeyn secte of oure religioun, I lyuede a Farisee.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 15 This new Secte of Lollardie.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 497 Aftir the daies of the Apostlis roosen also manye vntrewe sectis of Cristen men, as the sect of Valentynyanys.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xi. 19 For there must be sectes amonge you.

1530 T. Cromwell Let. 18 Aug. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 333 They wyll not discent from the lutheran sekt.

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 The damnable opinions of the secte of the anabaptistes.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries 81 They that love sectes are in dede worthy of punyshement.

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 221 The Jewes assured them selues that the Church..should shortly be ouerthrowne: the which by an odious name they called a Sect.

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. L1 Religion so by foolish sects confounded.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 115 Doe not I know you [Cromwell] for a Fauourer Of this new Sect ?

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 333 When the Religion formerly receiued, is rent by Discords;..you may doubt the Springing vp of a New Sect.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 69 The Millenaries, a sect of learned, and criticall Christians, who expect in the last thousand years of the Church, the cream of all militant perfection.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) vi. 349 He reformed the religion of the Persians, which before was divided into many sects.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 170 The church was distracted by the Nestorian and Monophysite sects.

1844 J. Stephen in Edinb. Rev. 80 251 The Clapham Sect.

1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám xliii. 9 The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vii. 288 The Clapham Sect, amongst whom he [sc. Macaulay] had been brought up.

c. In modern use, commonly applied to a separately organized religious body, having its distinctive name and its own places of worship; a ‘denomination’. Also, in a narrower sense, one of the bodies separated from the Church. the sects n. applied by Anglicans to the various bodies of Dissenters, by Roman Catholics to all forms of Protestantism.

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1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 4/1 in Chron. I They of all the other sectes before specified, were suffred only to continue vnabolished.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 306 That Sect which are called Quakers.

1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces v. 179 In Amsterdam..almost all Sects that are known among Christians, have their publique Meeting-places.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. v. 24 The common practice (at least among the Sects) of declaring against Reason as an Enemy to Religion.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 380 Almost every different congregation might probably have made a little sect by itself, or have entertained some peculiar tenets of its own.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 55 But with all the more severe prejudices and principles of his sect, Bide-the-bent possessed a sound judgment.

1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 102 We might say, that the massacre of St Bartholomew was intended to extirpate, not a religious sect, but a political party.

1836 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1845) II. 23 Almost all who profess to value Christianity seem when they are brought to the test to care only for their own sect.

1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) iii. 46 It might be said of the latter years of the Commonwealth, that there were almost as many sects as worshippers.

1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 436 The church is not a building for the service of any sect.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 To each alike of the countless orthodox sects his name is the symbol for the prevailing of the gates of hell.

d. abstract. (Cf. party n. 9c.)

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1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. v. 112 The spirit of sect, or an attachment not to abstract principles, but to a definite and organised ecclesiastical institution, is a spirit essentially similar to patriotism.

5. The system or body of adherents of a particular school of philosophy.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > system or theory

secta1387

philosophyc1387

scheme1690

thought1692

thought system1845

new thinking1853

thought structure1867

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 359 He [Aristotle] brouȝte up þe secte þat is i-cleped Peripatetica.

1579–80 T. North tr. Brutus in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1070 Cassius being in opinion an Epicurian,..spake..thus. In our sect, Brutus, we haue an opinion, that [etc.].

a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1637) 18 Three of the most learned that ever professed the Platonicke sect.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 276 The Sect Epicurean.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. Argt. 4 Our Poet was a Stoick Philosopher; and..all his Moral Sentences..are drawn from the Dogma's of that Sect.

1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 399 The Chaldæan Philosophers were divided into Sects, but the Distinction arose from the Nature of their Studies.

1798 J. Ferriar Eng. Historians 244 Some of the ancient philosophical sects, received their denominations from their places of instruction.

1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. Introd. 5 The purest and most exalted philosophic sect of antiquity was ‘the sect of the Stoics’.

a. transferred (from senses 4, 5). A school of opinion in politics, science, or the like; also, more or less jestingly, applied to a group of persons who attach importance to some peculiar crotchet about matters of social custom or the like.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun]

heresyc1384

school?a1425

sect1608

school of opinion1796

school of thought1829

society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive

sect1608

circle1646

coterie1738

circuit1752

set1780

in-group1906

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 18 And weele weare out In a wal'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebbe and flow bith' Moone.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne Prol. in Wks. I. 529 But in this age, a sect of writers are, That, onely, for particular likings care, And will taste nothing that is populare.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 18 The Atheists upon this occasion are divided into Sects.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 479. ⁋5 Socrates, who is by all Accounts the undoubted Head of the Sect of the Hen-peck'd, own'd..that [etc.].

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 429 That sect of men of letters in France, who call themselves, the oeconomists.

1788 Trifler No. 9. 113 The first sect on which I shall recommend you to try your skill..are Old Maids.

1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 450 A sect has shown itself among us, who declare they espoused our constitution..as a step to an English constitution.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 13 I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest..commend To cold oblivion.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 227 The doctrine made a sect among astronomers.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvii. 197 This I am sure will seem strange to the various sects of pathologists and theorists.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) vi. 367 The Whigs gave him a public dinner on the 21st of February, at which about 300 attended—the largest convocation of the sect that had yet taken place.

1899 W. S. Lilly 1st Princ. Politics 135 Socialism is rather a sect than a party.

†b. With pseudo-etymological reference: A ‘section’ of mankind. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > social class > [noun]

estatec1230

statec1300

rowa1350

qualityc1425

calling1477

range1494

line1528

stature1533

respect1601

station1603

gradationa1616

ordinancea1616

repute1615

spherea1616

distance1635

impression1639

civils1650

footing1657

regimen1660

order1667

sect1709

caste1791

status1818

position1829

social status1833

standpoint1875

1709 J. Swift Corr. 6 Jan. (1963) I. 117 But the World is divided into two Sects, those that hope the best, and those that fear the worst.

a1764 R. Lloyd Poet 254 There were two sects—the Bad, the Good.

†c. transferred. Way of thinking, turn of mind. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun]

spectaclec1386

reckoninga1393

sect1583

prospective1603

light1610

posture1642

point of view1701

stand1819

attitude of mind1832

psychology1834

standpoint1834

perspective1841–8

position1845

viewpoint1856

angle1860

way of looking at it1861

attitudea1873

pose1892

Anschauung1895

slant1905

1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 2^v Yet he could not haue a quiet conscience, til he might see her of the same sect, & as deadly to hate it [sc. court life], as he did loth it.

†7. = sept n.¹ (Irish). Obsolete. rare.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > Irish

nation1423

sect1536

clana1687

fine1786

1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 328 There are another sect of the Borkes, and divers of the Irisshery, towardes Slygoo.

1540 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 235 Thos sectes of people called the Cavenaghes.

†8. Law. sect of court (medieval Latin secta curiæ): ‘Suit and Service done by Tenants at the Court of their Lord’ (J. Harris Lex. Techn. 1710, II).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligations of tenants > other obligations of tenants

bridgeworkOE

bedrip1226

timber-lodec1400

suit and service1416

suling-man1440

presence and suit1504

homage and suit?a1509

sect of court1546

wood-carriage1557

suit service1579

sword-service1630

society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > suit and service

suit and service1416

presence and suit1504

homage and suit?a1509

sect of court1546

suit service1579

1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 245 To the erle of Comberland for secte of courte for the lande in Skipton.

1546 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 13 Sir William Malyory knight for lande in Nunwike and secte of Courte xiij d. John Norton for Fre Ferme and secte of Courte xiij d.

1571 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 89 With power to..continew court or courtis of Justiciarie..; sectis to mak be callit; absentis to amerchiat.

1578 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 13.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

sect-ascendancy n.

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1903 Q. Rev. Apr. 570 To the pre-Reformation policy of race-ascendency was added, under Elizabeth, that of sect-ascendency.

† sect-follower n. Obsolete

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1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 102^v To gratifie his owne secte folowers.

sect-founder n.

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1861 J. Edkins in Mrs. Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 273 He receives revelations, becomes a sect-founder.

sect-leader n.

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a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 389 Sect-Leaders their own Visions may impose.

1896 Q. Rev. Jan. 91 The actual methods adopted by the Hindu sect-leaders.

† sect-maker n. Obsolete

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1530 W. Tyndale Prol. 1 Cor. Ther came immediatly false Apostles & sectemakers, drue euery man disciples after hym.

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Acts xv. 36 Seducers and sect-makers.

† sect-master n. Obsolete = sect-founder.

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1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory f. 14 They doo not folowe these secte masters, as scholares moued by any probability of theire teachers persuation.

a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) i. 73 As if the Holy Isaac were An Heretick or Sect-Master.

C2.

sect-forming adj.

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1891 Church Times 28 Aug. 824/1 The sect-forming, dislocating career of the subsequent centuries.

sect-ridden adj.

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1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 444 This sect-ridden country.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sect
释义	sectn.¹ Brit. /sɛkt/, U.S. /sɛk(t)/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s secte, Middle English sekte, 1500s sekt, seacte, plural sextes, Scottish plural sekkis. Etymology: < French secte (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), or directly < Latin secta following (used as cognate object in sectam sequi, to follow a particular course of conduct, to follow a person's guidance or example), hence a party or faction, a philosophical sect or school, a class or profession (in medieval Latin also the distinctive costume of a class or order of men), < sequ- root of sequī to follow: for the formation compare sectārī to pursue. The Latin word was adopted also in other Romance languages: Spanish secta, Portuguese secta, Italian setta. It has been maintained that Latin secta is the feminine participle of secāre to cut, an ellipsis for via secta, from the phrase viam secāre (after Greek τέμνειν ὁδόν) to make (lit. ‘to cut’) one's way. Formally this would be quite possible; but secta does not occur in the physical sense of ‘way’, nor does it appear that via secta was ever in use; and some of the uses of secta are more satisfactorily accounted for by derivation < sequī than < secāre. †1. a. A class or kind (of persons). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade mannishOE placec1330 state1340 gree1382 conditionc1384 sectc1384 sortc1386 ordera1400 raff?a1400 degreea1425 countenancec1477 faction?1529 estate1530 race1563 calibre1567 being1579 coat1579 rang1580 rank1585 tier1590 classis1597 strain1600 consequence1602 regiment1602 sept1610 standinga1616 class1629 species1629 nome1633 quality1636 sort1671 size1679 situation1710 distinction1721 walk of life1733 walk1737 stage1801 strata1805 grade1808 caste1816 social stratum1838 station1842 stratum1863 echelon1950 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame (Fairf.) 1432 Alderfirste, loo, ther I sighe,..Hym of Secte saturnyne, The Ebrayke Iosephus. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvi. 13 How þis couetise ouer-cam alle kynne sectes, As wel lerede as lewede. c1400 Rom. Rose 5745 Eke in the same secte are set Alle tho that prechen for to get Worshipes, honour, and richesse. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) iii. i. i viij b The sect of pouert hath a protection From all statutes to go at lyberte. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Nij Flaterers & hostlers, and other of this secte Are besy in thy chambre. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Ij Of whose secte .i. suite or sorte of profession we..set forth abrode into the market stede many clientes. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 932 The which act and priuilege did nourishe and encrease aboundauntly the sect and swarme of theeues and murderers. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) Democritus to Rdr. 15 I know many of their Sect which haue taken Orders, in hope of a Benefice. †b. A religious order. Obsolete.Properly a use of sense 1; but Wyclif affects to take it in sense 4, as if the orders (esp. the mendicant orders) were new religions, competing with the ‘sect’ of Christ. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > [noun] order?c1225 religion?c1225 sectc1380 professiona1393 congregation1493 society1581 religious society1610 community1728 society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule order?c1225 religion?c1225 sectc1380 professiona1393 congregation1493 communityc1525 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 446 Þes foure sectis newe brouȝt in, as emperour clerkis, munkis & chanouns & þes foure ordris freris, disturblen moost þis fiȝtinge chirche & putten it fro þe cours of crist. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 293 Þoȝ men soȝt al sectes [v.r. þe sektis] of sistren & of breþeren. 1402 Jack Upland 106 Why stele ye mens children for to make hem of youre secte? ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 416 Þat he suld be of haly secte. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Pii^v Our halie fader ye paip and his bischopis giffis ane part of ye spulȝe quhilk thay reiff fra ye pwir to thir forsaid sekkis. 1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 36 Wicked sectes haue bin brought into the worlde vnder the names of Austin, Bernard, Francis, Dominik and others. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. li. 233 Ignatius then conceited had his Sect, And crau'd Confirmance of the Pope. 1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature (ed. 2) I. 142 As I think that there are only two houses of La Trappe existing, it may not be improper to mention, that this sect was first founded about a century ago, with the sanction of Pope Innocent the Eleventh. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. iii. 108 I..Made promise of the way her sect enjoins. †c. The (human) race. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [noun] maneOE worldOE all fleshc1000 mankinOE earthOE little worldc1175 man's kinda1200 mankinda1225 worldrichec1275 slimec1315 kindc1325 world1340 sectc1400 humanityc1450 microcosma1475 peoplea1500 the human kindred?1533 race1553 homo1561 humankind1561 universality1561 deadly?1590 mortality1598 rational1601 vicegerent1601 small world1604 flesh and blooda1616 mannity1621 human race1623 universea1645 nations1667 public1699 the species1711 Adamhood1828 Jock Tamson's bairns1832 folx1833 Bimana1839 human1841 peeps1847 menfolk1870 manfolk1876 amniota1879 peoplekind1956 personkind1972 c1400 Rom. Rose 4859 Ne were ther generacioun Our sectis strene for to save. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iii. f. 41^v The Articulation of the head with the Vertebres..diuine nature y^e mother of humane sect, hath shewed therin more care. d. Sex. Now nonstandard.A special use of sense 1; possibly suggested by the similarity in sound with sex n.¹ In modern English it may have originated afresh as an artificial pronunciation of sek (a singular evolved from the apparent plural sex) on the part of speakers of dialects that have final (k) for (kt). ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > sex sectc1386 gender1474 sexa1631 c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1171 For the wyues loue of Bathe Whos lyf and al hire secte god mayntene In heigh maistrie. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviii She me hath had so great in worshyp, that I nyl for nothyng in open declare, that in any thynge ayenst her secte maye so wene. a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) v. sig. H1 Although it be a shame For knights to combat with the female sect. 1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters ii. sig. C4 'Tis the easiest Art and cunning for our sect to counterfeit sicke. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 6 Their controversie was to be determined by Tyresias, (one that had beene of both sects). 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 77 These Robbers without Regard to Sect or Decency, stript all the Company stark naked. 1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure (1777) I. 173 The most artfullest of his sect. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. ii. 36 ‘Ye have skeel of our sect, sir,’ replied the dame. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 204/2 [Street-photographer loq.] A lady don't mind taking her bonnet off..before one of her own sect. †2. Distinctive costume (of a class or order). Also transferred the ‘garb’ or guise (of humanity). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > of class or sect sect1377 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 237 Many tyme god hath ben mette amonge nedy peple, Þere neuere segge hym seigh in secte of þe riche. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 258 He bereth þe signe of pouerte, And in þat secte owre saueoure saued al mankynde. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. viii. 130 And sitthe in oure secte as hit semed, þow deydest, On a fryday, in forme of man feledest oure sorwe. †3. Body of followers or adherents. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of sect1450 phalanx1602 camp1885 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent > body of inherdance1448 sect1450 adherence1549 adherencyc1600 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 204/2 The said John Newport and other of his secte..so thretening the Kingis pepil of the Ile [etc.]. 1512 W. Knight Let. 4 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 195 S^r William Sands and a few of his secte were in the contrarie opynyon of me. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxx. 216 The prouost and his sect exhorted hym therto. 1590–91 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 562 The..crafty practizes of M^r James Gordoun, fader bruthir to the Erll of Huntlie, and utheris of his sect. 1621 Gude & Godlie B. App. i. 234 Cum heir my Elect, and my awin sweit Sect, Ȝour hyre sall not be in weir. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 271 Et inde producit sectam suam, that is, he brings his sect or suite, or such as doe follow or affirme his complaint.] 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 147 My Sect thou seest, now learn too late How few somtimes may know, when thousands err. View more context for this quotation 4. A religious following; adherence to a particular religious teacher or faith. †a. Applied to any of the main religions of the world, as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam; the principles, or the adherents collectively, of any one of these faiths. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > [noun] sectc1386 society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Corpus) 9 As of þe secte of which þat he was born he kepte his lay to which þat he was sworn. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 129 Whan þat false prophete Machometys..wroot and brouȝt yn þe false lawe and secte of Saracins. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 182 And thus in thilke time tho Began the Secte upon this Erthe, Which of believes was the ferthe. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 73 b/1 Kynge Salamon louyd ouermoche..straunge wymen of other sectes. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 86 Of what secte or contre so euer they be, hethen or crysten, sarasen, or Iewe. 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. xv. sig. h4^v Wolde to god y^t thou were of our holy secte and crysten beleue. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 74 Preaching the woord of Godd and sincere secte of Christe. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Biij^v Y^e Soldan or chefe ruler hereof, is of Mahumets secte as are y^e Turkes. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E3 How did the Christians vse onr [sic] Knights? Bru. As if that we and they had beene on[e] sect. 1600 R. Carr tr. Mahumetane Hist. f. 19 Abagan..tooke vpon him the supersticion of the sect of Mahumet. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xx. 73 Whilest these wicked Miscreants [sc. Mohammedans] fortifie themselves in their devilish Sect, let us trust in our Lord. 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected I. iii. 139 At this time [an. 522] all the idolatry of the world was divided between two sects, that is, the worshippers of images, who were called the Sabians, and the worshippers of fire, who were called the Magians. b. †(a) A system of belief or observance distinctive of one of the parties or schools into which the adherents of a religion are divided; sometimes spec. a system differing from what is deemed the orthodox tradition; a heresy. Obsolete. (b) A body of persons who unite in holding certain views differing from those of others who are accounted to be of the same religion; a party or school among the professors of a religion; sometimes applied spec. to parties that are regarded as heretical, or at least as deviating from the general tradition. the Clapham Sect: a name applied derisively early in the 19th cent. to a coterie of persons of Evangelical opinions and conspicuous philanthropic activity, some of whom lived at Clapham; among the chief members were Wilberforce, Zachary Macaulay, and Henry Thornton. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [noun] dwildOE misbeliefa1225 heresy?c1225 sect13.. misbelieving1340 irreligion1592 miscredence1603 steal-truth1628 Zendicism1697 pseudo-religion1856 Manichaeism1894 society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > instance of sect13.. 13.. S. Ambrose 276 (Vernon) in Horstm. Alteng. Leg. (1878) 12 Wiþ heretykes of þe secte of Arrian. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvi. 5 For vp [a1425 New Coll. Oxf. 67 that bi] the moost certeyn secte of oure religioun, I lyuede a Farisee. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 15 This new Secte of Lollardie. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 497 Aftir the daies of the Apostlis roosen also manye vntrewe sectis of Cristen men, as the sect of Valentynyanys. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xi. 19 For there must be sectes amonge you. 1530 T. Cromwell Let. 18 Aug. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 333 They wyll not discent from the lutheran sekt. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 The damnable opinions of the secte of the anabaptistes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries 81 They that love sectes are in dede worthy of punyshement. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 221 The Jewes assured them selues that the Church..should shortly be ouerthrowne: the which by an odious name they called a Sect. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. L1 Religion so by foolish sects confounded. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 115 Doe not I know you [Cromwell] for a Fauourer Of this new Sect ? View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 333 When the Religion formerly receiued, is rent by Discords;..you may doubt the Springing vp of a New Sect. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 69 The Millenaries, a sect of learned, and criticall Christians, who expect in the last thousand years of the Church, the cream of all militant perfection. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) vi. 349 He reformed the religion of the Persians, which before was divided into many sects. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 170 The church was distracted by the Nestorian and Monophysite sects. 1844 J. Stephen in Edinb. Rev. 80 251 The Clapham Sect. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám xliii. 9 The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vii. 288 The Clapham Sect, amongst whom he [sc. Macaulay] had been brought up. c. In modern use, commonly applied to a separately organized religious body, having its distinctive name and its own places of worship; a ‘denomination’. Also, in a narrower sense, one of the bodies separated from the Church. the sects n. applied by Anglicans to the various bodies of Dissenters, by Roman Catholics to all forms of Protestantism. ΚΠ 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 4/1 in Chron. I They of all the other sectes before specified, were suffred only to continue vnabolished. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 306 That Sect which are called Quakers. 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces v. 179 In Amsterdam..almost all Sects that are known among Christians, have their publique Meeting-places. 1676 J. Glanvill Ess. v. 24 The common practice (at least among the Sects) of declaring against Reason as an Enemy to Religion. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 380 Almost every different congregation might probably have made a little sect by itself, or have entertained some peculiar tenets of its own. View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 55 But with all the more severe prejudices and principles of his sect, Bide-the-bent possessed a sound judgment. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 102 We might say, that the massacre of St Bartholomew was intended to extirpate, not a religious sect, but a political party. 1836 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1845) II. 23 Almost all who profess to value Christianity seem when they are brought to the test to care only for their own sect. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) iii. 46 It might be said of the latter years of the Commonwealth, that there were almost as many sects as worshippers. 1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 436 The church is not a building for the service of any sect. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 To each alike of the countless orthodox sects his name is the symbol for the prevailing of the gates of hell. d. abstract. (Cf. party n. 9c.) ΚΠ 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. v. 112 The spirit of sect, or an attachment not to abstract principles, but to a definite and organised ecclesiastical institution, is a spirit essentially similar to patriotism. 5. The system or body of adherents of a particular school of philosophy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > system or theory secta1387 philosophyc1387 scheme1690 thought1692 thought system1845 new thinking1853 thought structure1867 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 359 He [Aristotle] brouȝte up þe secte þat is i-cleped Peripatetica. 1579–80 T. North tr. Brutus in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1070 Cassius being in opinion an Epicurian,..spake..thus. In our sect, Brutus, we haue an opinion, that [etc.]. a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1637) 18 Three of the most learned that ever professed the Platonicke sect. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 276 The Sect Epicurean. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. Argt. 4 Our Poet was a Stoick Philosopher; and..all his Moral Sentences..are drawn from the Dogma's of that Sect. 1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 399 The Chaldæan Philosophers were divided into Sects, but the Distinction arose from the Nature of their Studies. 1798 J. Ferriar Eng. Historians 244 Some of the ancient philosophical sects, received their denominations from their places of instruction. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. Introd. 5 The purest and most exalted philosophic sect of antiquity was ‘the sect of the Stoics’. 6. a. transferred (from senses 4, 5). A school of opinion in politics, science, or the like; also, more or less jestingly, applied to a group of persons who attach importance to some peculiar crotchet about matters of social custom or the like. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun] heresyc1384 school?a1425 sect1608 school of opinion1796 school of thought1829 society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive sect1608 circle1646 coterie1738 circuit1752 set1780 in-group1906 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 18 And weele weare out In a wal'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebbe and flow bith' Moone. View more context for this quotation 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne Prol. in Wks. I. 529 But in this age, a sect of writers are, That, onely, for particular likings care, And will taste nothing that is populare. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 18 The Atheists upon this occasion are divided into Sects. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 479. ⁋5 Socrates, who is by all Accounts the undoubted Head of the Sect of the Hen-peck'd, own'd..that [etc.]. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 429 That sect of men of letters in France, who call themselves, the oeconomists. View more context for this quotation 1788 Trifler No. 9. 113 The first sect on which I shall recommend you to try your skill..are Old Maids. 1792 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 450 A sect has shown itself among us, who declare they espoused our constitution..as a step to an English constitution. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 13 I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest..commend To cold oblivion. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 227 The doctrine made a sect among astronomers. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvii. 197 This I am sure will seem strange to the various sects of pathologists and theorists. a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) vi. 367 The Whigs gave him a public dinner on the 21st of February, at which about 300 attended—the largest convocation of the sect that had yet taken place. 1899 W. S. Lilly 1st Princ. Politics 135 Socialism is rather a sect than a party. †b. With pseudo-etymological reference: A ‘section’ of mankind. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] estatec1230 statec1300 rowa1350 qualityc1425 calling1477 range1494 line1528 stature1533 respect1601 station1603 gradationa1616 ordinancea1616 repute1615 spherea1616 distance1635 impression1639 civils1650 footing1657 regimen1660 order1667 sect1709 caste1791 status1818 position1829 social status1833 standpoint1875 1709 J. Swift Corr. 6 Jan. (1963) I. 117 But the World is divided into two Sects, those that hope the best, and those that fear the worst. a1764 R. Lloyd Poet 254 There were two sects—the Bad, the Good. †c. transferred. Way of thinking, turn of mind. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun] spectaclec1386 reckoninga1393 view1573 sect1583 prospective1603 light1610 posture1642 point of view1701 stand1819 attitude of mind1832 psychology1834 standpoint1834 perspective1841–8 position1845 viewpoint1856 angle1860 way of looking at it1861 attitudea1873 pose1892 Anschauung1895 slant1905 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 2^v Yet he could not haue a quiet conscience, til he might see her of the same sect, & as deadly to hate it [sc. court life], as he did loth it. †7. = sept n.¹ (Irish). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > Irish nation1423 sect1536 clana1687 fine1786 1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 328 There are another sect of the Borkes, and divers of the Irisshery, towardes Slygoo. 1540 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 235 Thos sectes of people called the Cavenaghes. †8. Law. sect of court (medieval Latin secta curiæ): ‘Suit and Service done by Tenants at the Court of their Lord’ (J. Harris Lex. Techn. 1710, II). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] > obligations of tenants > other obligations of tenants bridgeworkOE bedrip1226 timber-lodec1400 suit and service1416 suling-man1440 presence and suit1504 homage and suit?a1509 sect of court1546 wood-carriage1557 suit service1579 sword-service1630 society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > suit and service suit and service1416 presence and suit1504 homage and suit?a1509 sect of court1546 suit service1579 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 245 To the erle of Comberland for secte of courte for the lande in Skipton. 1546 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 13 Sir William Malyory knight for lande in Nunwike and secte of Courte xiij d. John Norton for Fre Ferme and secte of Courte xiij d. 1571 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 89 With power to..continew court or courtis of Justiciarie..; sectis to mak be callit; absentis to amerchiat. 1578 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 13. Compounds C1. General attributive. sect-ascendancy n. ΚΠ 1903 Q. Rev. Apr. 570 To the pre-Reformation policy of race-ascendency was added, under Elizabeth, that of sect-ascendency. † sect-follower n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 102^v To gratifie his owne secte folowers. sect-founder n. ΚΠ 1861 J. Edkins in Mrs. Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 273 He receives revelations, becomes a sect-founder. sect-leader n. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 389 Sect-Leaders their own Visions may impose. 1896 Q. Rev. Jan. 91 The actual methods adopted by the Hindu sect-leaders. † sect-maker n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1530 W. Tyndale Prol. 1 Cor. Ther came immediatly false Apostles & sectemakers, drue euery man disciples after hym. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Acts xv. 36 Seducers and sect-makers. † sect-master n. Obsolete = sect-founder. ΚΠ 1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory f. 14 They doo not folowe these secte masters, as scholares moued by any probability of theire teachers persuation. a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) i. 73 As if the Holy Isaac were An Heretick or Sect-Master. C2. sect-forming adj. ΚΠ 1891 Church Times 28 Aug. 824/1 The sect-forming, dislocating career of the subsequent centuries. sect-ridden adj. ΚΠ 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 444 This sect-ridden country. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sectn.² Etymology: ? < Latin sectum, neuter past participle of secāre to cut. Compare set n.¹ rare. ? A cutting from a plant; in quots. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip planteOE plantingeOE quickwoodc1383 graffa1393 sarmenta1398 slivingc1400 springc1400 clavec1420 sleavingc1440 talionc1440 quick1456 quicking1469 graft1483 quickset1484 slip1495 setlingc1503 set1513 pitchset1519 slaving?1523 truncheon1572 stallon1587 crosset1600 marquot1600 sliver1604 secta1616 offset1629 slipping1638 side-slip1651 slift1657 cutting1691 pitcher1707 mallet-shoot1745 root cutting1784 stowing1788 stool1789 pitch1808 heel1822 cutling1834 piping1851 cutback1897 stump plant1953 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 332 Our carnall stings, our vnbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call loue to be a sect, or syen. 1864 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta 1686 The son lies close about thine heart,..Eats thee and drinks thee..thyself, a sect of thee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). † sectv.¹ Etymology: < sect n.¹ 1. transitive. To treat as a sect.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 13 Would you that Prelacy and Priesthood should perk up again, and under pretense of Religion,..be-heretick, and sect you, and then dissect you by persecutions? 2. to sect it: to behave as a sect. ΚΠ 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 81 The Priests of all sorts sect it, so do all religious persons faction and party it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † sectv.² Etymology: < Latin sect-, participial stem of secāre to cut. Obsolete. transitive. To cut or divide (into equal parts). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > divide into equal parts sect1657 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Kk2 Its leaves are sected into slender parts. 1697 G. Keith Ess. Discov. Geom. Probl. 10 He who understands..to sect any angle into 3. 5. 6. as is above shewed, will by the like Method and Praxis be able to sect any angle into 7. 8. 9. 10. &c. equal parts. 1697 G. Keith Ess. Discov. Geom. Probl. 10 How a Semicircle may be sected into any number of equal parts. 1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited II. ii. 19 Almost every thoroughfare in the city being sected and intersected by lines for horse-cars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > see also also refers to : -sectcomb. form < n.¹13..n.²a1616v.¹1656v.²1657 see also
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