Definitions for "Anabaptist"
A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.
Anabaptist is from the Greek [ ana] meaning again, and [ baptismos] meaning baptism. i.e., to re-baptize. The anabaptists were a radical sect that prospered during the start of the Reformation (1520-1580) who taught that infants should not be baptized, denied predestination, and believed that Christ had a celestial flesh, and He did not develop from the mortal flesh of Mary. The term was used in a Pejorative fashion. [ back
One of a sect that arose in Zurich in 1523 among the followers of Zwingli, who started the Reformation in Switzerland and advocated opposition to infant baptism, and believed that only such persons as had been baptized after a confession of faith in Christ constituted a real church
Keywords:  adherent
adherent of Anabaptism