单词 | moravian |
释义 | Moraviann.1adj.1 A. n.1 1. A native or inhabitant of Moravia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Moravia > [noun] Moravian1555 1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 289v The Slauon tounge..vsed of..the Bohemians, Lusacians, Silesians, Morauians. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. B1 A Noble Scholler..George Havnschildt of Furstenfeldt, a Morauian. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. 554 That..land was loosely occupied by the Moravians, a Sclavonian name and tribe. 1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia i. 5 The Western races—the Moravians, Zechians, Carantaneans, and to some extent, even the Poles. 1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne 21 To the east of Bavaria were other Slavonic tribes, Czechs, Moravians and Carentanians. 2. A member of a Protestant Church founded in 1722 in Saxony by emigrants from Moravia, continuing the tradition of the Unitas Fratrum, a body holding Hussite doctrines which had its chief seat in Moravia and Bohemia.The leader of the body was Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–60), who was the patron of the Moravian refugees and embraced their doctrines. The Moravians soon obtained many adherents in England and colonial North America. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Moravianism > [noun] > person Moravian1737 Herrnhuter1748 1737 W. Stephens Jrnl. 10 Nov. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) I. 17 I would be present to hear what passed betwixt him and some of the Moravians. 1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 108 Died.., in the 60th year of his age, Count Nicholas Lewis of Zinzendorff, founder and head of the sect of Moravians. 1777 S. Johnson 28 June in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1816) III. 130 He had a Moravian with him much of his time. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 323 Moravians rise! bestow some meet reward On dull devotion. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Moravians, a sect of dissenters, who, on account of conscientious scruples, are permitted, in lieu of an oath, to make a solemn affirmation in courts of justice. 1871 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 10 Apr. in S. Longfellow Final Memorials H. W. Longfellow (1887) ix. 159 Meditating a third play,..the scene to be among the Moravians at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 300/2 Quakers, Moravians and Separatists were first privileged to make a solemn declaration or affirmation. 1963 A. J. Lewis Zinzendorf 176 Wherever the Moravians went they took the Christingle Service. 1991 T. Kizzia Wake of Unseen Object x. 221 The Moravians..considered dancing a sin, one that offered unauthorized access to planes of spiritual ecstasy. B. adj.1 1. Of or relating to Moravia or its inhabitants. ΚΠ 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes cvii, in Wks. I. 802 Fill them full Of your Morauian horse, Venetian bull. 1837 W. Youatt Sheep v. 139 The Moravian sheep are larger. 1895 Dict. National Biogr. XLIV. 115/1 Payne..held a fresh disputation with Pribram..in the presence of an assembly of Bohemian and Moravian notables at Prague. 1969 Listener 3 Apr. 466/3 The exile, poverty and forced labour in a Moravian village which she endured with her children until the time came for her grudging rehabilitation. 1990 Gramophone May 1981/1 Perhaps because Kubelik is in his element with Mahler's Moravian background, the best performances are those in which the music hymns nature. 2. Of or relating to the Moravian Church or its members. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > Hungarian regions Pannonic1597 Pannonian1605 Moravian1739 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Moravianism > [adjective] Moravian1739 Moravianized1820 1739 W. Stephens Jrnl. 22 Aug. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) II. 100 An heavy Complaint being exhibited against the Moravian Brethren. 1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 5 I have scarce heard one Moravian Brother own his Church to be wrong in any thing. 1777 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 236 The Moravian mills in New Jersey. 1827 Gore Gaz. (Ancaster, Upper Canada) 22 Sept. 118/5 An honest man, and one to whom the public of that day was much indebted for opening Road of about 70 or 80 miles, through a wilderness, from Oxford to the Moravian Grant. 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. I. vii. 351 He [sc. Warburton] calls the Moravian hymn book ‘a heap of blasphemous and beastly nonsense’. 1919 Census: Relig. Bodies 1916 II. 524/2 The philanthropic institutions under Moravian auspices include..a home for the widows of Moravian ministers at Bethlehem, Pa. 1978 Derby Diocesan News Oct. 1 I was given the privilege of having lunch with the Moravian Synod—a pleasant and friendly occasion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Moraviann.2adj.2 rare. A. n.2 A native or inhabitant of Moray, in Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland ScoteOE Irish Scota1387 Irish Scot1521 Irishman1529 Moravian1577 Moravea1600 highlander1610 lowlander1621 trewsman1639 Whiglander1682 northland1698 Norlander1716 plaid1749 bonnet man1763 plaid-man1763 norland1768 Irish Gael1771 Galwegian1774 southern1812 Gallovidian1875 Fifer1887 Clydesider1921 teuchter1940 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 45/2 in Chron. I When they were thus assembled, Brytaynes, Scottes, Pictes and Morauians on one part, and Romaines..on the other. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 191 A striking difference between the Moravians and Aberdonians appears. 1836 W. F. Skene Highlanders Scotl. (1902) II. vi. 282 He easily succeeded in exciting the Moravians once more to revolt. 1924 H. B. Mackintosh Pilgrimages in Moray i. 11 The Moravians threw off the yoke of the Norsemen, but only for a time, and on 14th August, 1040, the most important battle ever fought in Moray took place. 1999 Canad. Jrnl. Hist. 34 167 The death of Angus and the defeat of the Moravians were, as we have seen, noticed by Irish sources, with the Annals of Inisfallen noting the ‘slaughter of the men of Moray in Alba’. B. adj.2 Of or relating to Moray. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [adjective] > Moray Moravian1897 1897 C. J. G. Rampini Hist. Moray & Nairn i. 43 No period of Moravian history is more obscure than that which followed the accession of Malcolm Ceannmor. 1999 Canad. Jrnl. Hist. 34 162 The paper concludes by examining questions of regional identity in twelfth-century Scotland and reflects upon whether a strong sense of Moravian identity might have contributed to the tenacity of resistance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1adj.11555n.2adj.21577 |
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