Moravian

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moravian \Mo*ra"vi*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See
     {Moravian}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Moravian \Mo*ra"vi*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an
     offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate
     church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the
     middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by
     persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed
     Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35
     on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also
     {Herrnhuter}.
     [1913 Webster]