Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Herrnhuter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Herrnhuter \Herrn"hut*er\ (h[~e]rn"h[u^]*[~e]r; G.
h[e^]rn"h[=oo]*[~e]r), n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of
Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the
Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of
Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
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