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baptist noun & adjective. Also (as a specific epithet and of the religious body) Baptist. ME.
[Old & mod. French baptiste from ecclesiastical Latin baptista from ecclesiastical Greek baptistes, from baptizein BAPTIZE: see -IST.]
A. noun.
A person who baptizes; spec. John, the forerunner of Christ (St John the Baptist). ME.
A member of a Protestant Christian religious body practising baptism only of believers (not infants) and by immersion (cf. ANABAPTIST 2). L16.
Free Will Baptist: see FREE WILL. Particular Baptist: see PARTICULAR adjective. Primitive Baptist: see PRIMITIVE adjective & noun. Southern Baptist: see SOUTHERN adjective.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to the religious body of the Baptists; being a Baptist. E18.