a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) xix. 394 But an handful to their heap; but a rantisme to their baptisme.

1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 319 Baptism I cannot call it neither, but meer Rantism on their faces.

1689 B. Keach Gold Refin'd ii. 30 There was no Rantism used in the Apostles Days but Baptism.

1701 G. Whitehead Truth Prevalent 116 For Sprinkling is Rantism, and not Baptism... I would not have these Men offended at the word Rantism, it being as much English as the word Baptism.

a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 5 Then the Priest, pretending to the Company that the Infant is, by that Rantism, regenerated and grafted into the Body of Christ's Church, exhorts them to Prayer.

1843 Baptist Reporter Jan. 61 Unless they wash their hands clean of ‘Infant Rhantism’.

1861 Brit. Millennial Harbinger 1 Apr. 174/2 Then come Howe, Leighton, Brainerd, all saint-like, but very much given to the rhantism of babes in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

1944 E. A. Payne Fellowship of Believers v. 61 Those on the Continent who had in the sixteenth century already come to reject the sprinkling (or, as it came later to be called, the rantism) of infants.

1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh i. vii. 81 Daily and diligent followers of their Ministers, and so exceedingly holy in times past, have since..run on even to Rantisme.

1665 Truth Vindicated 13 John had not then..gotten into a perfect state of Rantisme.

a1670 G. Rust Disc. Truth (1682) xi. 181 The Foundations of Rantism, Debauchery, and all Dissoluteness of Life.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 362 This person [sc. F. Cheynell] who had ran through most, if not all, religions, even to rantism.

1843 G. Peck Script. Christian Perfection viii. 199 Mr. Toplady, in his ‘Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England’, endeavours to trace the likeness between Mr. Wesley's doctrine of Christian perfection and the ‘Rantism’ of former times.

1992 16th Cent. Jrnl. 23 434 The message was clear; Rantism was a monstrous life and led to monstrous children.