The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moravian \Mo*ra"vi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
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 re["e]stablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s (n.); 1610s (adj.), from Moravia. From 1746, in reference to the Protestant sect founded in the former German state of Moravia (now in Czech Republic). Related: Moravianism.
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Moravian is the adjective form of the Czech Republic region of Moravia, and refers to people of ancestry from Moravia.
Moravian may also refer to:
- Moravia, the region
- Moravia (disambiguation), other uses
- Moravians, people from Moravia
- Moravian dialects, dialects of Czech spoken in Moravia, sometimes considered a distinct Moravian language
- Moravané ("The Moravians"), a political party in the Czech Rep. favouring the autonomy or independence of Moravia
- a member or adherent of the Moravian Church, German-American Protestant denomination, successor to the Unity of the Brethren
- a student of Moravian Academy, a private school in Pennsylvania
- a student of Moravian College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania
- an inhabitant of the Scottish Moray, especially the historic Mormaer of Moray
Usage examples of "moravian".
They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
Moravians, and another little village of half civilized basketmaking Indians at Conestoga near Lancaster.
Milada Janosikova Kundera, in Brno, a medium-size city in the Moravian section of Czechoslovakia.
Mennonites, Schwenkenfelders, Dunkards, Moravians and Amish, but it was the Amish in particular who spoke the Palatinate dialect of High German that eventually evolved into the tongue that most know as Pennsylvania Dutch.
The German settlers were mostly Lutherans, but there were other sectsMennonites, Dunkers and Sabbatarians, Moravians, Separatists.
Here and there other non-resistant groups such as the Hutterites and the Moravian Brethren continued.
Montague, John, 281 Naskapi Indians Montreal, 23-24, 25, 43, 44, 48 Nault, Alexandre, 67 Moran, Lord, 430 Nault, Andre, 54 Moravians, 2 3 3 Nesbitt, A.
Not far from the Moravian town of Bethlehem, Indians fell on the village of Gnadenhutten and massacred the inhabitants.
She confessed her former sins to her shoemaker, a pious Moravian brother, a follower of the old reformer John Huss, who had been burned for his heresies by the Council of Constance in the year 1415.
The parking lot behind the bay was deserted and littered with dozens of small beeswax can dies that brought to mind Moravian love feasts and other religious celebrations.
Converted by the Moravian Brethren years before the last French war, caught between the warring sides, distrusted by ev'ryone, wishing only to live a Christian Life, these Indians were peacefully settl'd up near the Lehigh when the Rangers there came after them, but a few Weeks before the Conestoga murders, suspecting them of being in League with Pontiac, whose depredations were then at their full Flood.
He cast himself as a Swabian pastor who subsequently turned from the service of the Church to music, who had been a disciple of Johann Albrecht Bengel, a friend of Oetinger, and for a while a guest of Zinzendorf's congregation of Moravian Brethren.
His fear lest Miss Brooke should have run away to join the Moravian Brethren, or some preposterous sect unknown to good society, was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs.
Moravian Pansophist, an inspiration to Wilkins and Leibniz among many others.
So tell me, oh amazing one, how does a nine-hundred-year-old Moravian stud muffin go about helping an exciting, exotic, wild American sex goddess to get rid of the fourcount 'em, fourghosts in her possession?