Taborite
(ˈtæbəraɪt)
[ad. G. Taboriten pl., ad. Boh. taborzhina, f. tabor tabor n.2; so called from their encampment on a craggy height, now the town of Tabor in Bohemia.]
A member of the extreme party or section of the Hussites led by Zizska.
| 1646 Bp. Maxwell Burd. Issach. in Phenix (1708) II. 313 We might..add the Remainder of the Waldenses and Albigenses in Piedmont, and the Parts adjoining; or of the Taborites in Bohemia. 1786 A. Maclean Christ's Comm. iii. (1846) 250 Exterminating the Taborites or Vaudois. 1861 J. Gill Banished Count vi. 68 The Calixtines might be styled the Gallicans of Bohemia, and the Taborites the Protestants. |