An|a|bap|tist

An|a|bap|tist
An|a|bap|tist «AN uh BAP tihst», noun, adjective.
–n.
a member of a former Protestant sect opposing infant baptism and holding that only baptism of adults who had professed faith was valid. The Anabaptists originated in Switzerland in the 1520's.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Anabaptists or Anabaptism.
╂[< New Latin anabaptista < Latin anabaptismus < Greek anabaptismós < ana- again + baptismós baptism]

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