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A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.

The doctrine, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt.

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

n that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B. Jonson.

One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.

Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1. Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries. Jer. Taylor.

One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland. Eadie.

One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.