Moravian

Mo·ra·vi·an

of Moravia or its people or culture
of the religious sect of Moravians

a person born or living in Moravia
the variety of Czech spoken in Moravia
a member of a Protestant sect founded in Saxony (c. 1722) by disciples of John Huss from Moravia

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Moravian

noun

A native or inhabitant of Moravia.
A group of Czech dialects spoken in Moravia.
A member of a Protestant denomination founded in Saxony in 1722 by Hussite emigrants from Moravia.

adjective

Of or relating to Moravia or its people, dialects, or culture.
Of or relating to the Moravian denomination.

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Salem was founded in 1766 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall (1721-1802), a friend of Zinzendorf, and the financial manager of the board controlling the Moravian purchase made in North Carolina in 1753, consisting of 100,000 acres, and called Wachovia.
In 1849 exclusive Moravian control of Salem's industries and trades was abolished; in 1856 land was first sold to others than Moravians, and in the same year the town was incorporated.
On the west side are the institution of the sisters of St Vincent; the Ratisbon school; the Montefiore hospice; the British ophthalmic hospital of the knights of St John; the convent and church of the Clarisses; and the Moravian leper hospital.
(1) Ma.hrisch-Ostrau (Moravian Ostrau), a town in Moravia, 95 m.
MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or Moravian CHu4cH, a Christian communion founded in the east of Bohemia.

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