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Yes the Beckites are a full blown subsect (subcult)? of this movement.
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years. 2010
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The problem is not with Christ or true Christians, but with the subsect of Dispensationalists.
Thomas Jefferson fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho 2010
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He is a product of the British upper classes, a subsect of society bred to believe they were born to run the world.
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But the instructions have been lost over the centuries so now it's up to a subsect of Opus Dei, headed by an albino landscape architect to re-learn how to operate it.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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But the instructions have been lost over the centuries so now it's up to a subsect of Opus Dei, headed by an albino landscape architect to re-learn how to operate it.
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I recommend this story to everyone, especially to a certain subsect of my fellow 'conservatives.'
Nice Review, and Q&A #2: Depression stillnotbored 2008
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M. O'BRIEN: Now 8: 37 and five years ago this moment, 13 minutes after they first became aware of the first hijacking, FAA flight controllers contact NEADS, that's the Northeast Defense Sector, or a subsect of NORAD.
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I would bless the man for that alone were I not from the Atheist subsect of the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy.
It was a joke 2006
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Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part i.sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect.
Quotations 1919
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Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii.sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect.
biocon commented on the word subsect
Subsect means subdivide (Oxford English Dictionary).
September 27, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word subsect
I've perused copies of the OED that were subsected into 2 volumes, and have hefted the bounder that was subsected into what was it, 14 volumes, those many years ago?
September 27, 2011