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Hemerobaptist Eccl.|ˌhɛmərəʊˈbæptɪst| [ad. eccl. L. Hēmerobaptista, pl. -æ, a. Gr. ἡµεροβαπτισταί (Eusebius), f. ἡµέρα day + βαπτιστής baptist.] A Jewish sect which practised daily baptism as a spiritual means of cleansing from sin; also an early obscure Christian sect who followed the same practice. Also attrib.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1585) 556 The Hemerobaptists were Iewes in all points. 1580Fulke Retent., etc. 314 A great number of the old heresies, in which the papists consent with the ancient hereticks; the Valentinians, in their cross;..the hemerobaptists, in their holy water. 1600O. E. Reply to Libel ii. iii. 46 The Hemerobaptistes for these continual washings..are by Epiphanius numbred in the catalogue of Jewish heretickes. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. 1895Bible Soc. Rec. (N.Y.) Nov. 167/1 The interesting little community of the Sabeans, the descendants of the Hemero-baptists of the first centuries. 1897Expositor Aug. 145 The spread of Hemerobaptist principles had developed widely after the destruction of the temple and the Jewish polity. So Hemeroˈbaptism, † Hemerobaptiˈzation, the practice of daily baptism.
1653R. Baillie Disswas. Vind. (1655) 81 This..was enough for any Hemerobaptization, and more. 1897Expositor Aug. 147 There appear to be no clear intimations of Hemerobaptism in the Ignatian epistles. |