antipaedobaptist
See also: antipædobaptist
English
Alternative forms
- anti-paedobaptist, anti-paedo-baptist
- antipedobaptist, anti-pedobaptist, anti-pedo-baptist
- antipædobaptist, anti-pædobaptist, anti-pædo-baptist (obsolete)
Etymology
From anti- + paedobaptist.
Noun
antipaedobaptist (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 1996, p. 22:
- They were all antipedobaptists, but at this point the comparison ceases.
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