baptist
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- follower of Baptistic doctrinesType of ProtestantKinds Southern Baptist, Northern Baptist, DunkerMember of Baptist Church, Baptists
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Translations
Noun person who baptizes
- Spanish
- bautista
- French
- baptiste
- German
- Täufer
- Italian
- battista
- Portuguese
- batista
- Russian
- крести́тель krestítelʹ
- Dutch
- baptist
- Polish
- baptysta
- Hungarian
- keresztelő
- Portuguese (PT)
- batista
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. baptista, Gr. βαπτιστής.
1. One who administers baptism; — specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. John Milton
2. 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.
In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United States] are Calvinistic, but with much freedom and moderation. with supplement, 1883. American Cyclopædia
Freewill Baptists, a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in doctrine, and practice open communion. — Seventh-day Baptists, a sect of Baptists who keep the seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See Sabbatarian. The Dunkers and Campbellites are also Baptists.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54