paedobaptistpedobaptistn.

1645 H. Denne Antichrist Vnmasked (title page) An Answer unto two Pædobaptists, Dan. Featly, D. D. and Stephen Marshall, B. D. The Arguments for Childrens Baptisme opened, and answered.

1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 70 The Pædobaptists are as much for water-Baptism as the Anabaptists are, and hold themselves as firmly engaged by their Infant-Baptism, as they do by their after-Baptism.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pedobaptist, one that holds or practises infant baptism.

1772 in W. Urwick Nonconf. Worcester (1897) 215 Y^e Paedo~baptist Congregation is of late years much reduced.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. viii. 190 The Congregationalist and the Anti-paedobaptist Denominations.

1891 F. W. Newman Life J. H. Newman 62 The only part which I took was, to support Union with Pædo-Baptists, not to divide.

1955 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 60 88 ‘Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven’ is quoted by Baptists to show that infants do not need to be baptized; it is quoted by Paedo-Baptists to justify the baptism of children.

1997 G. A. Wills Democratic Relig. vi. 89 Alien immersion meant that even the immersion of believers by pedobaptist ministers was no baptism because pedobaptists erred about baptism.