Baptist
noun/ˈbæptɪst/
/ˈbæptɪst/
- a member of a Christian Protestant Church that believes that people should be baptized when they are old enough to understand what it means and not when they are babiesCultureThe Baptist church is the largest group of Protestant Christians in the US, with about 40 million members around the world, including a small number in Britain. The group was formed in England in the early 17th century by people who disagreed with other Protestants about the ceremony of baptism. Baptists believe in putting a new member of the Church completely under water during baptism.Topics Religion and festivalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryBaptist is used before these nouns:
- chapel
- preacher
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense of someone who baptizes someone else): from Old French baptiste, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek baptistēs, from baptizein ‘immerse, baptize’.
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