Anabaptist

• anabaptist

From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”).

Anabaptist (plural Anabaptists)

1. A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation, with a tenet of adult baptism.
   • 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 95:

     Were the Anabaptists right? Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit?

2. A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.

   Hyponyms: Mennonite, Amish, Hutterite, Brethren, Dunker, Dunkard, River Brethren

• autem dipper (archaic cant)

• Anabaptistic, Anabaptistical, Anabaptism

Anabaptist (comparative more Anabaptist, superlative most Anabaptist)

1. Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists during the Protestant Reformation.
2. Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists of the present-day.

Anabaptist m (plural Anabaptisten)

1. Anabaptist