Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Taiping \Tai"ping"\, or Taeping \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.