Adamites, a 2d-century Gnostic sect in Africa, who sought to recall the state of innocence men were in before the fall, rejected marriage, and went naked. Part of their doctrines were in the middle ages adopted by some of the Beghards or Brethren of the Free Spirit; especially in Bohemia and Moravia, where Ziska slew large numbers of them.
Adamites
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 47
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