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Baptist
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. Milton.
2. One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.