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A sect of reformers in Germany, arising about 1800 A.D.: the followers of Wycliffe in England.

A body of primitive Wes- leyans. who assumed importance about the time of John Wycliffe, (1300,) and were very successful in disseminating evangelical truth ; but, being implicated (apparently against their will) in tbe insurrection of the villeins in 1381, the statute De Hwictico Comburen- do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representatives survive to the present day under various names and disguises. Brown.

lol'ards, n.pl. the followers of Wycliffe in England: a society founded in Antwerp (1300 A.D.) for the burial of the dead and the care of the sick.--ns. LOLL'ARDY, LOLL'ARDISM, the doctrines of the Lollards. [Old Dut. Lollaerd, from their peculiar hum in singing--lollen, to sing softly; but confused with M. E. loller, an idler; cf. Loll.]

A religious sect in Germany, early in the fourteenth century, differing in many important points from the Church of Rome. The followers of Wyclif were also called L. [L.].