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SECT , a body
separate
Jews , the Mahommedans, and the Buddhists, &c. In the Christian Church
term
The latter use has been influenced by the false etymology which makes the word mean " cut off " (Lat. secare, to cut). The derivation has been long a 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, faction . Another transferred sense is a manner or mode of life, so hanc sectam rationemque vitae . . . secuti sumus (Cie. Gael. 17, 40). It was also the regular
Vulgate (N.T.) translates aipeocs sometimes by secta, sometimes by haeresis. In Med. Lat., besides these uses we find secta meaning a suit at law, a suit of clothes, and a following or suite. These meanings point to the derivation of secta adopted by Skeat (Etym. Diet., 1910) ; which connects the word with sequi, to follow. Whichever derivation is accepted a " sect " does not mean a part
church
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