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 reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of
Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also
Herrnhuter. [
1913 Webster]