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baptists
(encz) | baptists,křtitelé n: Zdeněk Brož |
baptists
(wn) | Baptists
n 1: any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe
in the baptism of voluntary believers [syn: {Baptist
Church}, Baptists] |
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Freewill Baptists
(gcide) | free-will \free-will\, freewill \free"will`\, a.
Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a
freewill offering.
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Freewill Baptists. See under Baptist.
[1913 Webster]Baptist \Bap"tist\ (b[a^]p"t[i^]st), n. [L. baptista, Gr.
baptisth`s.]
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1. One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to
John, the forerunner of Christ. --Milton.
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2. One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity
of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that
baptism should be administered to believers alone, and
should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
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Note: In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United
States] are Calvinistic, but with much freedom and
moderation. --Amer. Cyc.
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Freewill Baptists, a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in
doctrine, and practice open communion.
Seventh-day Baptists, a sect of Baptists who keep the
seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See
Sabbatarian. The Dunkers and Campbellites are also
Baptists.
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German Baptists
(gcide) | German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See German, n.]
Of or pertaining to Germany.
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German Baptists. See Dunker.
German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical
pod and a scew point.
German carp (Zool.), the crucian carp.
German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica,
var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.
German paste, a prepared food for caged birds.
German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore
in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.
--Raymond.
German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.
German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly
cooked.
German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and
tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in
the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying
proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag
at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to
make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical
with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much
used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings
of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other
white alloys.
German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a
forge, with charcoal for fuel.
German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German
type, used in English printing for ornamental headings,
etc., as in the words,
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Note: This line is German Text.
German tinder. See Amadou.
[1913 Webster]Dunker \Dun"ker\, prop. n. [G. tunken to dip.]
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, and
they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren.
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Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but
after a few years the members emigrated to the United
States; they were opposed to military service and
taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
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Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the
Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the
seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.
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Seventh-day Baptists
(gcide) | Sabbatarian \Sab`ba*ta"ri*an\, n. [L. Sabbatarius: cf. F.
sabbataire. See Sabbath.]
1. One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as
holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in
the Decalogue.
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Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this
opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the {Seventh-day
Baptists}, hold it now.
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2. A strict observer of the Sabbath.
[1913 Webster]Seventh \Sev"enth\, a. [From Seven: cf. AS. seofo[eth]a.]
1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
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On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2.
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2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which
anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
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Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday.
Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.
[1913 Webster]Baptist \Bap"tist\ (b[a^]p"t[i^]st), n. [L. baptista, Gr.
baptisth`s.]
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1. One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to
John, the forerunner of Christ. --Milton.
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2. One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity
of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that
baptism should be administered to believers alone, and
should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
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Note: In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United
States] are Calvinistic, but with much freedom and
moderation. --Amer. Cyc.
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Freewill Baptists, a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in
doctrine, and practice open communion.
Seventh-day Baptists, a sect of Baptists who keep the
seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See
Sabbatarian. The Dunkers and Campbellites are also
Baptists.
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