baptist
baptist Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to a Protestant Christian denomination, its churches, or its members that practice believer's baptism by immersion.
"The choir performed at the local Baptist church on Sunday morning."
• noun
A member of an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination that holds that baptism should be administered only to professing believers and performed by complete immersion in water.
"Raised as a Baptist in Georgia, she remained active in her congregation throughout her life."
A person who administers the rite of baptism, especially as an epithet for John the Baptist.
"A medieval fresco in the chapel depicts the Baptist preaching in the wilderness along the Jordan River."
• Rhymes for baptist
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French baptiste, via Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek baptistēs ('one who immerses or baptizes'), derived from the verb baptein ('to dip or plunge in water').