Book of Mormon

Book of Mormon
    n 1: a sacred text revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an
         ancient prophet Mormon; supposedly a record of ancient
         peoples of America translated by Joseph Smith
    

Mormon \Mor"mon\, prop. n. (Eccl.)
   One of a Christian denomination (The Church of Jesus Christ
   of Latter-day Saints) in the United States, followers of
   Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the
   Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the

   {Book of Mormon}, first published in 1830. The Mormons
      believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles,
      etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   Note: The Mormons call their religious organization The
         Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head
         claims to receive revelations of God's will, and to
         have certain supernatural powers. The church
         headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. They form a
         substantial fraction of the population of Utah, and at
         the end of the 20th centrury their numbers were
         increasing due to active proselytization.
         [1913 Webster +PJC]