资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

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.