paedobaptismpedobaptismn.
/ˌpiːdəʊˈbaptɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpɛdoʊˈbæpˌtɪz(ə)m/, /ˌpɛdoʊˈbæbˌtɪz(ə)m/, /ˌpidoʊˈbæpˌtɪz(ə)m/, /ˌpidoʊˈbæbˌtɪz(ə)m/ The baptism of infants.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > child > [noun]
paedobaptism1640
infant baptism1674
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. §10 Where is there expresse charge for the Lord's day? Where for pædobaptism?
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 38 The administration of Pedobaptisme.
1739 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 10/2 Custom has so long been connected Sprinkling with Paedobaptism, and Immersion with the Denial of it.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pedobaptism,..infant baptism.
1839 Biblical Repertory July 361 The chief dogma of the Anabaptists was the rejection of pedobaptism.
1872 Westm. Rev. July 81 Persons who denied that pædobaptism is to be found in the New Testament..were allowed to rot..in gaols.
1905 Polit. Sci. Q. 20 108 It could not admit that adult baptism was wrong, that paedo-baptism was right, without breaking so completely with its past that sympathy could not reach round the break.
1998 K. O. Berends in R. M. Miller et al. Relig. & Amer. Civil War ii. vi. 141 Sprinkling, and its close identification with pedobaptism, is a ritual that holds inherent nurturing, feminine symbols.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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