Anabaptist

[ an-uh-bap-tist ]

/ ˌæn əˈbæp tɪst /

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noun

a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.

Archaic. Baptist (def. 1).

adjective

of or relating to Anabaptists or Anabaptism.

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Origin of Anabaptist

1525–35; <New Latin anabaptista<Medieval Latin anabapt(īzāre) to rebaptize (<Late Greek anabaptī́zein;see ana-, baptize) + -ista-ist

OTHER WORDS FROM Anabaptist

An·a·bap·tism, nounAn·a·bap·tis·ti·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby Anabaptist

amyxorrhea, an, ana, anabaena, anabantid, Anabaptist, anabas, anabasine, anabasis, anabatic, anabiosis

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How to use Anabaptist in a sentence

It is directly from them that the Anabaptist movement of history dates its origin.
German Culture Past and Present|Ernest Belfort Bax
The reformers were not tolerant; for a woman was burnt for Arianism in 1550 and a male Anabaptist in 1551.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4|Various
He may have been engaged on his “Answer” to the “blasphemous cavillations” of an Anabaptist, his treatise on Predestination.
John Knox and the Reformation|Andrew Lang
The Anabaptist whom Knox is discussing had been personally known to him, and had lucid intervals.
John Knox and the Reformation|Andrew Lang

Thousands would go to see a Quaker hanged that would be indifferent to the fate of a Presbyterian or an Anabaptist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Anabaptist

Anabaptist

/ (ˌænəˈbæptɪst) /

noun

a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism

a member of a later Protestant sect holding the same doctrines, esp with regard to baptism

adjective

of or relating to these movements or sects or their doctrines

Derived forms of Anabaptist

Anabaptism, noun

Word Origin for Anabaptist

C16: from Ecclesiastical Latin anabaptista, from anabaptīzāre to baptize again, from Late Greek anabaptizein; see ana-, baptize

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