a sect of Protestants, who have been settled for a considerable time past at Hernhuth in Moravia, and have of late years spread themselves over most of our American colonies, as well as in several parts of England, where they are permitted to settle, by a late act of parliament. They have a kind of church-government peculiar to themselves; and are commonly known by the name of Unitas Fratrum, or The Brethren. They profess the utmost veneration for our blessed Saviour, whom they consider as their immediate head and director; enjoin the most implicit obedience to the rulers of their church; and are said to practise much brotherly love amongst one another; but from many of their tenets, it would appear, that obscenity makes no small part of their devotion. See ZINZENDORFF.