Religious sect
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
People believing in the same religious doctrines who are more or less closely associated or organized to advance such doctrines and increase the number of believers therein.
See 76 Wis. 177, 20 Am. St. Rep. 41, 7 L. R. A. 330, 44 N. W. 967.