[ad. G. Taboriten pl., ad. Boh. taborzhina, f. tabor TABOR sb.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 likewise add the Remainder of the Waldenses and Albigenses in Piedmont, and the Parts adjoining; or of the Taborites in Bohemia.
1786. A. McLean, Christ’s Comm., III. (1846), 250. In 1434 matters were compromised with the greater part of the Hussites, who, upon being allowed the use of the cup in the sacrament, submitted in all other things to the papal hierarchy, and joined in exterminating the Taborites or Vaudois who stood firm to their principles, and contended for the authority of the word of God against the authority and errors of the church of Rome, so that their public testimony was silenced for a time, and their enemies every where triumphed over them.
1861. J. Gill, Banished Count, vi. 68. The Calixtines might be styled the Gallicans of Bohemia, and the Taborites the Protestants.
