Hemerobaptistn.
/ˌhɛmərəʊˈbaptɪst/ Ecclesiastical.
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 attributive.
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Hemerobaptist1577
1577 M. Hanmer Chronogr. 12 in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. The Hemerobaptists were Iewes in all poynts.
1580 W. Fulke Discov. Daungerous Rocke in Retentiue 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.
1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iii. 46 in Briefe Replie to Libel The Hemerobaptistes for these continual washings..are by Epiphanius numbred in the catalogue of Jewish heretickes.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hemerobaptists, a Sect among the antient Jews, thus call'd from their washing and bathing every Day, in all Seasons.
1895 Bible Soc. Rec. (N.Y.) Nov. 167/1 The interesting little community of the Sabeans, the descendants of the Hemero-baptists of the first centuries.
1897 Expositor Aug. 145 The spread of Hemerobaptist principles had developed widely after the destruction of the temple and the Jewish polity.
Derivatives
Hemeroˈbaptism n.
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Hemerobaptization1655
Hemerobaptism1897
1897 Expositor Aug. 147 There appear to be no clear intimations of Hemerobaptism in the Ignatian epistles.
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Hemerobaptization1655
Hemerobaptism1897
1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 81 This..was enough for any Hemerobaptization and more.
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