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

g, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.

Of or for baptism; baptismal.

Baptistic. [R.]

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.

One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. [Obs.] Featley.

One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]

rity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

The doctrine of the Anabaptists.

manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

A large dish. [Obs.] Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8.

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

f beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

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 religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.