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† Cataˈbaptist Obs.
[ad. Gr. καταβαπτιστής ‘coined by Gregory Nazianzen as opp. to βαπτιστής’ (L. and S.); f. κατά down + βαπτιστής one who dips, baptizer.]
‘One that abuseth or depraveth, or is an adversary to the sacrament of Baptism’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656). A nickname of 16–17th c. for any one who rejected the orthodox doctrine of baptism.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xv. (1634) 648 Catabaptists, which denie that we be rightly baptised, because we were baptised by wicked men and idolaters in the Popish Kingdome. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. vii. 128 The receiving of Infants to holy Baptisme is a matter of so high consequence, that we justly Brand our Catabaptists with heresie, for denying it. 1642Featly Dippers Dipt 23 (R.) They [Anabaptists] are called also Catabaptists, from the preposition κατὰ and βαπτίζω, signifying an abuser or prophaner of baptism. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. I. vi. ii. 227 The Anabaptists, whom he calls Catabaptists. 1864Mem. W. Bull ii. (1865) 27 He was a Catabaptist, holding that the ordinance of baptism was to be administered only to Jews and Pagans.
So † Cataˈbaptism; † Catabapˈtistical a.; † Cataˈbaptistry [cf. Anabaptistry], the doctrine of Catabaptists.
1574Whitgift Def. Answ. iii. Wks. 1851 I. 368 Neither is this any title of ‘catabaptistry’. 1655J. Goodwin (title), Cata-Baptism; or new Baptism waxing old, and ready to vanish away. 1661Gauden Consid. 12 The Liturgy..vindicates the..Catholick use of Infant Baptiam against the Anabaptistical novelty and Catabaptistical perverseness. |