different between sect vs multisectarian

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English

Etymology

From Middle English secte, from Old French secte (“a sect in philosophy or religion”), from Late Latin secta (“a sect in philosophy or religion, a school, party, faction, class, gild, band, particularly a heretical doctrine or sect, etc.”), possibly, from Latin sequi (“to follow”). Alternatively linked to sectus (“cut off, divided”), past participle of sec?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

sect (plural sects)

1. An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

   A religious sect.

2. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
3. (obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Hypernyms

• religion

Hyponyms

• denomination

Related terms

• sectarian
• sectish

Translations

See also

• cult

Further reading

• sect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sect at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'tecs, CEST, CTEs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TCEs, TECs, cest

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t?st]

Verb

sect

1. supine of sec

Middle English

Noun

sect

1. Alternative form of secte

English

Alternative forms

• multi-sectarian

Etymology

multi- +? sectarian

Adjective

multisectarian (comparative more multisectarian, superlative most multisectarian)

1. Composed of multiple sects; pertaining to sectarianism regarding multiple sects.
   • 1972, Northern Ireland: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, February 28 and 29 and March 1, 1972, publ. United States Congress, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., pg. 546:

     [...] and that from God springs the laws of morality (a simpler and better term than "religion" in these multisectarian days, when the term too often means a splitting of straws over the veriest trifles)

   • 1944, Ralph Barton Perry, Puritanism and Democracy, Vanguard Press, pg. 346:

     The political sequel to Separatism is the neutral state presiding over a multisectarian society.

   • 2008, Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, W. W. Norton & Company, ?ISBN, pg. 196:

     Hundreds of Palestinians have been forced to leave — 10 percent of Bethlehem's Christian population has emigrated in the past few years alone, which has affected the multisectarian social fabric of the city where Christ was born.