Definition of sect

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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..

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Sectionalism :: Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national..
Anthropotomical :: Anthropotomical (a.) Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies..
Gymnosophist :: Gymnosophist (n.) One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature..
Antivivisection :: Antivivisection (n.) Opposition to vivisection.
Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..
Interocular :: Interocular (a.) Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennae of some insects..
Insectologer :: Insectologer (n.) An entomologist.
Creepiness :: Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.
Ephemeral :: Ephemeral (n.) Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc..
Gula :: Gula (n.) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
Anthropotomy :: Anthropotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
Intermine :: Intermine (v. t.) To intersect or penetrate with mines.
Grub :: Grub (n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith..
Brachyceral :: Brachyceral (a.) Having short antennae, as certain insects..
Druse :: Druse (n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
Intergrave :: Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
Hemisect :: Hemisect (v. t.) To divide along the mesial plane.
Suradanni :: Sura (n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number..
Dissect :: Dissect (v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize..
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