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anabaptist
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "one who baptizes over again," from Modern Latin anabaptista , from Latin anabaptismus "second baptism" (used in literal sense from 4c.; see anabaptism ).\n \nOriginally in English in reference to sect that practiced adult baptism and arose in Germany ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context 1811 English) A pickpocket caught in the act, and punished with the discipline of the pump or horse-pond.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of anabaptist.
While many of the Anabaptists were perfect quietists, preaching the duty of non-resistance and the wickedness of bearing arms, even in self-defence, others found sanction for quite opposite views in the Scripture, and proclaimed that the godless should be exterminated as the Canaanites had been.
It is not impossible that the Anabaptist Balthasar Huebmaier had a hand in them.
The defeat itself was not so disastrous to the Anabaptist cause as were the acts of the leaders when in power.
They drew their inspiration not merely from Sozini, but from a variety of sources, for the doctrine appeared simultaneously among certain Anabaptist and Spiritualist sects.
Thus the only overt attempt to resist the authority of Charles V, apart from one or two insignificant Anabaptist riots, was crushed.
Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist continued to compete for the leadership and hated each other cordially.
He had been a refugee in the Netherlands, where he may have come under Anabaptist influence.
The appearance of the Socinians about 1550, and the mutual animosity of the several sects, including the Anabaptist, was destructive.
Behind him the Anabaptist began to scream as she was wheeled slowly into the maw of a raging blast furnace.
He used his authority carefully, to eliminate potential rivals or, as in the case of the Anabaptist just fed to the flames, people who might ask questions or demand government accountability.
Green said Joe Jenkins was the pastor of the Anabaptist church and I should go talk to him if there was a problem.
Korn was proceeding up the stairs without slackening his pace, and the chaplain resisted the temptation to remind him again that he was not a Catholic but an Anabaptist, and that it was therefore neither necessary nor correct to address him as Father.
The seminar was being held in this little chapel affair that was once an Anabaptist hall.
Donhauser, imposing in her elegant yet practical satin jumpsuit, was the Anabaptist envoy to our Hope Nation colony.
Her Anabaptist doctrines were tolerated, as were most cults, but the Naval Service, like the rest of the Government, was committed to the Great Yahwehist Christian Reunification.