Bohemian Brethren

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a Christian denomination formed in Bohemia in 1467 from various Hussite groups, reorganized in 1722 as the Moravian Church.

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Bohemian Brethren British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Unitas Fratrem.  a Protestant Christian sect formed in the 15th century from various Hussite groups, which rejected oaths and military service and advocated a pure and disciplined spiritual life. It was reorganized in 1722 as the Moravian Church

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Example Sentences

Besides the writers of the community of the Bohemian Brethren, we meet at this period with three historians of merit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Drabicius, who had left the Bohemian Brethren owing to differences of belief, and then lived in Hungary as a weaver in poor circumstances, boasted in a.d.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Thirdly, the Bohemian Brethren, whom he styles Pyghards.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

In 1497 the envoys from the Bohemian Brethren, Lucas and Thomas, found in Rome itself one of their faith, whom they bitterly reproached for concealing his belief.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

They spent two days at Rixdorf, the village alluded to above, three miles from Berlin, where was a small congregation of Bohemian Brethren, who took refuge there in 1737.

From Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by Yeardley, John