antipaedobaptist
See also: antipædobaptist
English
editAlternative forms
edit- anti-paedobaptist, anti-paedo-baptist
- antipedobaptist, anti-pedobaptist, anti-pedo-baptist
- antipædobaptist, anti-pædobaptist, anti-pædo-baptist (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom anti- + paedobaptist.
Noun
editantipaedobaptist (plural antipaedobaptists)
- Someone opposed to the practice of infant baptism.
- 1861, James Chrystal, A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism:
- The Munster fanatics seem to have been Antipaedobaptist Anabaptists, but their baptism must have begun with themselves, as the followers of De Bruis's opinion on the subjects.
- 1996, William R Estep, The Anabaptist Story, 3rd edition, Eerdmans, page 22:
- They were all antipedobaptists, but at this point the comparison ceases.