the group of people who follow a particular creed or embrace a certain set of opinions or rituals.
Secession
Secretariat
Sect
Section
Sederunt
Examples: sect of astronomers; of atheists; of flatterers and Hostlers; of Lollards; of men of letters; of old maids; of pathologists and theorists; of philosophers; of physicians; of thieves and murderers; of writers.