Dict: easton - Sect

easton:

Sect @ (Gr. hairesis, usually rendered "heresy", kjv@Acts:24:14; kjv@1Chronicles:11:19; kjv@Galatians:5:20, etc.), meaning properly "a choice," then "a chosen manner of life," and then "a religious party," as the "sect" of the Sadducees kjv@Acts:5:17), of the Pharisees (15:5), the Nazarenes, i.e., Christians (24:5). It afterwards came to be used in a bad sense, of those holding pernicious error, divergent forms of belief ( kjv@2Peter:2:1; kjv@Galatians:5:20).