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Thompson Chain Reference
• Sects, Jewish
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Valentinus, Founder of a Gnostic Sect
• Nicolaitanes, a Heretical Sect
• Dositheus (1), Leader of Jewish Sect
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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SECT, n. L. Sp. secta from L. seco, to cut off, to separate.

1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men. Most sects have originated in a particular perlon, who taught and propagated some peculiar notions in philosophy or religion, and who is considered to have been its founder. Among the jews, the principal sects were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In Greece were the Cynic sect, founded by Antisthenes and the Academic sect, by Plato. The Academic sect gave birth to the Peripatetic, and a Cynic to the Stoic.

2. A cutting or coin. Not used.