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Bap⋅tist

  [bap-tist]
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–noun
1. a member of a Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion and that is usually Calvinistic in doctrine.
2. (lowercase) a person who baptizes.
3. the Baptist. John the Baptist.
–adjective
4. Also, Bap⋅tis⋅tic. of or pertaining to Baptists or their doctrines or practices.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME baptiste < OF < LL baptista < Gk baptists, equiv. to bapt(ízein) to baptize + -istēs -ist
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Bap·tist   (bāp'tĭst)   
n.  

  1. A member of an evangelical Protestant church of congregational polity, following the reformed tradition in worship, and believing in individual freedom, in the separation of church and state, and in baptism of voluntary, conscious believers.

  2. baptist One that baptizes.


[Middle English, baptizer, from Old French baptiste, from Late Latin baptista, from Greek baptistēs, from baptizein, to baptize; see baptize.]
Bap'tist adj.
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