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单词 baptist
释义 I. baptist|ˈbæptɪst|
[a. OF. baptiste, ad. L. baptista, ad. Gr. βαπτιστής, n. of agent f. βαπτίζειν to baptize.]
1. One who baptizes; esp. as applied to John, the forerunner of Jesus Christ. Baptist's day: the 24th of June.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 131 Seint iohan baptiste was bihaueded.c1230Ancr. R. 160 Sein Johan..was Godes baptiste.c1400Rom. Rose 7000 Gret wodes everichon, I lete hem to the Baptist Johan.1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxiv. (1597) 121 At Baptis-day with Ale and cakes bout bon⁓fires neighbors stood.1815Scott Ld. of Isles vi. iv, Ere John the Baptist's eve.1871[see baptizee].1879Farrar St. Paul 463 Disciples of the Baptist.
2. One who immerses himself, or is immersed. rare.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 296 The Baptist, or dipped person, came out..good-humoured after his purification.c1811Fuseli Lect. Art iv. (1848) 457 Varied groups of baptists, immersing themselves.
3. A member of that Protestant religious body which holds that baptism ought to be administered only to believers, and by immersion; at first and till present century, called, by opponents anabaptists. [Perhaps this use originated in the early names, Baptized Believers, Churches, etc. Cf. baptist(e early pa. pple. of ]
[1654(title) The Humble..Vindication..[of] severall of the Baptized Churches in this Nation.]1654W. Britten (title) The Moderate Baptist.1674J. Mead (title) A brief account of passages between Quakers and Baptists.1852Moore Cherries, Methodists, of birds the aptest..And that water-fowl the Baptist.1860Eadie Eccl. Cycl. s.v., A conspiracy..in 1661..brought forth from the Baptists another disavowal of Anabaptist principles. [See Anabaptist 3.]
b. attrib. quasi-adj.
1717(title) Rules of the Particular Baptist Fund.1766Entick London IV. 309 At the Boar's-head..is a Baptist meeting.1847Nation. Cycl. II. 827 Persons who do not embrace the Baptist tenet.
II. baptist(e
earlier form of batiste.
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