Baptist

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Bap·tist /ˈbæptɪst/ noun [countable]  RRCa member of a Christian group that believes baptism should only be for people old enough to understand its meaning 浸礼会教徒

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Baptist• In 1884 Baptists celebrated Spurgeon's fiftieth birthday.• They passed a Baptist church set on cinder blocks.• The guns of Concord and Lexington in 1775 settled for Baptist hearts what their heads could never fully decide.• Jacobite crowds sometimes attacked poor Dissenting groups, such as the Baptists.• There are half-hidden secrets as we once again read about John the Baptist.• For John the Baptist the importance of his task is emphasised by the lack of concern for things like clothes and food.

Bap·tist nounChineseSyllable  

group Corpus member of a a Christian that

Baptist
Bap‧tist /ˈbæptəst, ˈbæptɪst/ noun [countable]
a member of a Christian group that believes baptism should only be for people old enough to understand its meaning

Bap·tistBrE /ˈbæptɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbæptɪst/ 🔊 nouna member of a Christian Protestant Church that believes that baptism should take place when a person is old enough to understand what it means, and not as a baby 浸礼会教徒▸ Bap·tist adjective [usually before noun] ◆a Baptist church浸礼会教派