| 单词 | united brethren |
| 释义 | > as lemmasUnited Brethren United Brethren n. Christian Church (originally) a Hussite sect, founded in the 15th cent., based primarily in Moravia and Bohemia; (subsequently) a Protestant Church founded in 1722 in Saxony by the remaining members of this sect; the Moravians (Moravian n.1 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Moravianism > [noun] > person > collective the Unity of the (Moravian) Brethrena1640 United Brethren1657 1657 J. Owen Of Schisme viii. 271 The united Brethren of Bohemia..who concluding the whole Papacy to be purely Antichristian, could not allow of the Ordination of their Ministers by any in communion with it. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. iv. 177/2 It had not been so long before the Names of Presbyterian and Congregational, had been melted down into that One of United Brethren. 1778 G. Ettwein Let. 25 Mar. in G. Washington Papers (2004) Revolutionary War Ser. XIV. 300 These Infant Settlements of the United Brethren, commonly calld Moravians. 1836 Baptist Missionary Mag. Sept. 225/1 The missionary settlements of the United Brethren in this quarter of the world [sc. South Africa] lie on its southern extremity. 1998 T. Wolfe Man in Full xxvii. 627 ‘United Brethren,’ said Bother, ‘but Sister'n'me's Methodists.’ < as lemmas |
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