[an-uh-bap-tist] 
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | Archaic. Baptist (def. 1). |
| 3. | of or pertaining to Anabaptists or Anabaptism. |
| An·a·bap·tist (ān'ə-bāp'tĭst) n. A member of a radical movement of the 16th-century Reformation that viewed baptism solely as an external witness to a believer's conscious profession of faith, rejected infant baptism, and believed in the separation of church from state, in the shunning of nonbelievers, and in simplicity of life. [From Late Greek anabaptizein, to baptize again : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek baptizein, to baptize (from baptein, to dip).] An'a·bap'tism n. |
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