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Taborite

Definitions

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  • noun historical A member of a 15th-century religious community in Bohemia, considered heretical by the Catholic Church.

Etymologies

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Czech Táborita. Equivalent to Tabor +‎ -ite, from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

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Examples

  • Many of the best citizens proclaimed their horror at the destruction of the fairest buildings and their disgust with the Taborite forms of worship.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Payne favoured a nearer approach to the Taborite innovations; others had gained the conviction that peace and union were only to be found in returning to the Roman allegiance.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • In Prague, however, they were kept down by Johann of Selau, who had assumed a kind of dictatorship, in the country the Taborite leaders themselves thought it better to give another direction to the destructive mania of their followers.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Procopius, the Taborite leader, and the almost total extinction of this party.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • It was pervaded with the idea of equality in the spirit of the Taborite literature of the age, from which it took its origin.

    German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

  • He was the hero of the Hussite or Taborite crusade (1419-1422), the _malleus Catholicorum_.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Czech Doomsday prophet Martinek Hausha of the radical Taborite movement warned that the world would end in February 1420, February 14 at the latest.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

  • If he starts talking about "the Taborite light" that will really give him away. be really bad .. no not just bad but really really horrible.

    Stones Cry Out 2009

  • But Taborite and millennialist ideas continued to pop up, not only among the Czechs, but also in Bavaria and in other German lands bordering Bohemia.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

  • Moreover, the Taborite peasantry who had rejoiced in the abolition of feudal dues paid to the Catholic patricians found the radical regime reimposing the same feudal dues and bonds only six months later.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

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