Definition of Church of the brethren

1. Noun. A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion.

Exact synonyms: Dippers, Dunkers
Generic synonyms: Baptist Denomination
Member holonyms: Dunkard, Dunker, Tunker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Of The Brethren

Church
Church Father
Church Latin
Church Slavic
Church Slavonic
Church Slavonicism
Church Slavonicisms
Church of Christ Scientist
Church of England
Church of Ireland
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Church of Rome
Church of Satan
Church of Scientology
Church of Scotland
Church of the Brethren
Churchianity
Churchill
Churchill Downs
Churchillian
Churchward
Churg
Churrigueresque
Churu
Chuvash
Chuvash Autonomous Oblast
Chuvashes
Chuvashia
Chvostek
Chvostek's sign

Literary usage of Church of the brethren

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1829)
"The synod which, in 1570, put an end to the disputes which then tore the church of the Brethren into factions, had considered as non-essentials the ..."

2. The Theological Works of Herbert Thorndike by Herbert Thorndike (1844)
"... and defended the church of the brethren from embracing such wicked opinions, and when Antioch could not determine the question, Paul and Barnabas had ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Under imperial pressure the King of Saxony banished Zinzendorf "The chief doctrine to which the Church of the Brethren adheres, and which we must preserve ..."

4. The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the by Joseph Milner (1835)
"... and Silesia, under the bigot Austrians, the church of the brethren, in the beginning of the century had nearly disappeared, and their light teemed ready ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... thry wcre probably descended from a colony of German Waldenses, who had come to Moravia in 1480 and joined the Church of the Brethren, and, therefore, ..."

6. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1812)
"Joining afterwards the Church of the Brethren, established by an Act of ... consistent with his connexion with, and ministry in, the Church of the Brethren. ..."

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