PICARD, a native of the Netherlands, who improved upon the errors of the Adamites. He called himself the Son of God; and pretended, that, like a new Adam, he was sent by his father to restore the law of nature, which, according to him, chiefly consisted in community with respect to women, and in going quite naked. It is said, that though marriage was instituted among them, no man was allowed to lie with a woman without first obtaining leave of the chief of the sect. He fortified himself in an island in the river Lisfink, seven leagues from Thabor, the military residence of the famous Zisca; but unhappily for him, 40 of his followers being gone out upon a party, basely plundered some country houses, and killed upwards of 200 persons; upon which Zisca attacked the island, took it, and put all the Picards to the sword, except two, whose lives he spared in order to learn from their own mouths the principles of their religion. This happened in the year 1420.