Definition of baptist

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Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..

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Dopper :: Dopper (n.) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
Decollation :: Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist..
Decollation :: Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Anabaptistic :: Anabaptistic (a.) Alt. of Anabaptistica.
Anabaptistry :: Anabaptistry (n.) The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists..
Pedobaptist :: Pedobaptist (n.) One who advocates or practices infant baptism.
Baptisteries :: Baptisteries (pl. ) of Baptistr.
Baptistry :: Baptistry (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near..
Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists..
#NAME? :: -tries (pl. ) of Baptistr.
Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ..
Visitation :: Visitation (n.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July..
Anabaptist :: Anabaptist (n.) A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
Libertine :: Libertine (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women..
Benedictus :: Benedictus (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.
Waterlandian :: Waterlandian (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
Catabaptist :: Catabaptist (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants..
Anabaptistical :: Anabaptistical (a.) Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines..
Dunker :: Dunker (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists..
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