member of the Protestant sect that opposed infant baptism
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Anabaptist Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Key leaders were Conrad Grebel , Felix Manz, Georg Blaurock, Ludwig Hätzer, and Balthasar Hübmaier . Distinctive characteristics: they repudiated church-state ties and infant baptism; Church was a voluntary association of committed believers; practiced strict church discipline; pacifists; some practiced community of goods; had religious toleration for all; maintained simplicity of dress and lifestyle; some had mystical tendencies. These distinctives were also held by the Hutterites , Schwenkfelders, Mennonites , and Amish.
Anabaptist Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
anabaptist
\an`a*bap"tist\ (&?;), n. [ll. anabaptista, fr. gr. as if 'anabaptisth`s: cf. f. anabaptiste.] a name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
note: in church history, the name anabaptists usually designates a sect of fanatics who greatly disturbed the peace of germany, the netherlands, etc., in the reformation period. in more modern times the name has been applied to those who do not regard infant baptism as real and valid baptism. [
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Noun
1. adherent of Anabaptism
(hypernym) Protestant
(hyponym) Mennonite
(member-holonym) Anabaptist denomination
Anabaptist Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Anabaptists (Greek ανα (again, twice) +βαπτιζω (baptize), thus "re-baptizers") are Protestant Christians of the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe, although some consider Anabaptism to be a distinct movement from Protestantism. The Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites are direct descendants of the movement.
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