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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Mo·ra·vi·an /məˈreviən/
 (a.)摩發維亞的,膜拉維亞教徒的摩拉維亞人,摩拉維亞教徒

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mo·ra·vi·an a. Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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 reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony.  Called also Herrnhuter.
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