Lollards

(The,) (lol'lardz.) [From Ger. lal len, to murmur a song, and pref. hard.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of early Reformers in Germany and England. The name was given in the first place to a cla of persons in Germany and the Low Countries, who, in the 14th cent., undertook spiritual offices in behalf of the sick and the dead, and were greatly beloved by the people. Later, the term was conferred opprobriously upon heretics and schismatics in general, more particularly those who followed the teachings of John Wickliffe (λ. υ.). [s. 553]