PICARDS

The name of a fanatical and immora' sect of Christians, who sprang up in Bohemia in the fifteenth century. They derived their name from Picard, a native of Flanders, who styled himself the New Adam, and attempted to revive the absurdities of the Adamites of the second century in imitating the state of primeval innocence. They were completely annihilated by Zisca, the great general of the Hu ites, who, struck with their abominable practices, had inarched against them. PICHDRIM IiKAN. An oblong heavy seed brought from Brazil, and nsed medicinally in the cure of colic. It has a musky odour, and is supposed to be the produce of a species of Laurus. [s. 947]