单词 | self-baptizer |
释义 | > as lemmasself-baptizer self-baptizer n. Brit. /ˌsɛlfbapˈtʌɪzə/ , U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈbæpˌtaɪzər/ , /ˌsɛlfˈbæbˌtaɪzər/ Christian Church (now historical) a person who baptizes himself or herself, or who believes in this type of baptism, typically holding that no one else is worthy or has authority to perform the sacrament; spec. (a) John Smyth (c1570–1612), the founder of the Se-baptists, an Anabaptist congregation in Amsterdam in the early 17th cent.; a member of this congregation, a Se-baptist; (b) a member of a subgroup of the Bezpopovtsy; cf. Bezpopovtsy n., Old Believer n. [In sense (a) as a translation of the elements of Se-baptist n.ΚΠ 1646 N. Homes Vindic. baptizing Beleevers Infants sig. A3v Being Sebaptists, that is, self-baptizers; or baptised with the old sort of Infant-baptisme: (in either of which they are most unlike to John the Baptist). 1812 Monthly Mag. Apr. 252 A pious Christian, who, suspecting that adult baptism might be essential to salvation, and yet not wishing to belong to the Congregational Baptists,..baptised himself... Dr. Adam Clarke solemnly applauds this self-baptizer. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 270/2 The Samokreshchennikee, or ‘self-baptisers’,..baptise themselves by repeatedly diving into a river. 1904 M. Creighton & L. Creighton Hist. Lect. & Addr. 55 Smith first baptised himself and then Helwys, and by this means obtained two elders who were qualified to baptise others. For this reason he was called a Sebaptist, or Self-baptiser. 2008 L. Heretz Russia on Eve of Modernity 71 One eighteenth-century Self-Baptizer gave an especially eloquent expression of the radical Old Believer theme of the defilement of the present world. < as lemmas |
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