Taborites
(3 syl.). A sect of Hussites in Bohemia. So called from the
fortress Tabor, about fifty miles from Prague, from which Nicholas von
Hussineez, one of the founders, expelled the Imperial army. They are
now incorporated with the Bohemian Brethren.
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