TAIPING

{ Tai″ping″, or Tae″ping″ } (?), a. [[Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.]] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.