" The word " Puritan " thus always referred to a type of religious belief, rather than a particular religious sect, and the attribution has been determined, generally, by a polemical context.

The present gamut of meanings of sect has been influenced by confusion with the homonymous ( but etymologically unrelated ) Latin word secta ( the feminine form of the past participle of the verb secare, to cut ), as sects were scissions cut away from the mainstream religion.

In European languages other than English the corresponding words for " sect ", such as secte ( French ), secta ( Spanish ), seita ( Portuguese ), sekta ( Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian ), sekt ( Danish, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish ), sekte ( Dutch ), Sekte ( German ) or szekta ( Hungarian ), are used sometimes to refer to a harmful religious or political sect, similar to how English-speakers popularly use the word " cult ".

Examples include meteorosophist, which roughly translates to " expert in celestial phenomena "; gymnosophist ( or " naked sophist ," a word used to refer to a sect of Indian philosophers, the Gymnosophists ), deipnosophist or " dinner sophist " ( as in the title of Athenaeus's Deipnosophistae ), and iatrosophist, a type of physician in the later Roman period.

The word " bugger " was derived, via the French " bougre ", from " Bulgar ", that is, " Bulgarian ", meaning the medieval Bulgarian heretical sect of the Bogomils, which spread into Western Europe and was claimed by the established church to be devoted to the practice of sodomy.

( The Gospel of John, which is the only gospel where Nicodemus is mentioned, particularly portrays the sect as divided and willing to debate ) Because of the New Testament's frequent depictions of Pharisees as self-righteous rule-followers ( see also Woes of the Pharisees and Legalism ( theology )), the word " pharisee " ( and its derivatives: " pharisaical ", etc.

The word is an Old Church Slavonic calque of Massaliani, the Syriac name of the sect corresponding to the Greek Euchites.

In giving the name Ophite, however, he appears to have brought into greater prominence than Irenaeus the characteristics of the sect indicated by the word, their honour of the serpent, whom they even preferred to Christ, their venerating him because he taught our first parents the knowledge of good and evil, their use of the references to the brazen serpent in the Old and New Testament, and their introduction of the serpent into their Eucharistic celebration.

The word may derive from the Latin saeptum, meaning " enclosure " or " fold ", or via an alteration of " sect ".

Brahacharnam is a corruption of the Sanskrit word Brahatcharnam () means " the great sect ".

Leading feminist theologians, especially Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza emphasize the feminine gender of the word basileia and the feminist nature of the early teachings of Jesus and the important and counter-cultural role and contributions of women in the Jesus sect.

When this fails to help him, Fry visits the " Monastery of Teshuvah " to use the radio telescope of a sect of monks who are attempting to find God in the universe ( Teshuvah is a Hebrew word meaning " repentance " and " answer ").

Originally, it was wrongly derived from the French word " Boulgrerie " (" of Bulgaria "), meaning the medieval Bulgarian clerical sect of the Bogomils, although they are not cognates.

Incidentally, the Marathi word " maan-bhaavi " derived from " mahanubhavi " is one of the cultural residues that record the existence of the sect.

" A nazirite was a member of a sect who practiced asceticism, and the word has no known link to the name of the town.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".

The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

The word amaranth comes from the Greek word amarantos, meaning " unwithering ".

Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.

The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ( akron, " edge, extremity ") and ( polis, " city ").

The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, deriving from the Greek noun, ' account of the stars '.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.