KJV Dictionary - baptist
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BAPTIST
BAP'TIST, n. One who administers baptism. This appellation is
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appropriately given to John, the forerunner of Christ.
2. As a contraction of Anabaptist, one who denies the doctrine of infant baptism, and maintains that baptism ought to be administered only to adults by immersing the body in water.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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